nonsensicality
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non·sen·si·cal
(nŏn-sĕn′sĭ-kəl)adj.
1. Lacking intelligible meaning: a nonsensical jumble of words.
2. Foolish; absurd: nonsensical ideas.
non·sen′si·cal′i·ty (-kăl′ĭ-tē), non·sen′si·cal·ness (-kəl-nĭs) n.
non·sen′si·cal·ly adv.
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Noun | 1. | nonsensicality - a message that seems to convey no meaning amphigory, nonsense verse - nonsensical writing (usually verse) cobblers - nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers" crock - nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" rigamarole, rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing |
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