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NONSENSICALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonsensicality mean?
• NONSENSICALITY (noun)
The noun NONSENSICALITY has 1 sense:
1. a message that seems to convey no meaning
Familiarity information: NONSENSICALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A message that seems to convey no meaning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality
Hypernyms ("nonsensicality" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonsensicality"):
absurdity; absurdness; ridiculousness (a message whose content is at variance with reason)
amphigory; nonsense verse (nonsensical writing (usually verse))
balderdash; fiddle-faddle; piffle (trivial nonsense)
buzzword; cant (stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)
cobblers (nonsense)
crock (nonsense; foolish talk)
fa la; fal la (meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)
gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)
incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility (nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)
jabberwocky (nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))
flummery; mummery (meaningless ceremonies and flattery)
empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric (loud and confused and empty talk)
rigamarole; rigmarole (a set of confused and meaningless statements)
schmegegge; shmegegge ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)
hooey; poppycock; stuff; stuff and nonsense (senseless talk)
baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)
Derivation:
nonsensical (having no intelligible meaning)
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