NONSENSE

Nonsense

Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning. In the philosophy of language and philosophy of science, nonsense is distinguished from sense or meaningfulness, and attempts have been made to come up with a coherent and consistent method of distinguishing sense from nonsense. It is also an important ...

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nonsense

Noun

  1. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
    After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
  2. An untrue statement.
    He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.
  3. Something foolish.
  4. A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by .
  5. A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Verb

  1. To make nonsense of
  2. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  3. To joke around, to waste time


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