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Definition of Nonsensicality
1. Noun. A message that seems to convey no meaning.
Generic synonyms: Content, Message, Subject Matter, Substance
Specialized synonyms: Absurdity, Absurdness, Ridiculousness, Amphigory, Nonsense Verse, Balderdash, Fiddle-faddle, Piffle, Buzzword, Cant, Cobblers, Crock, Fa La, Fal La, Gibber, Gibberish, Incoherence, Incoherency, Unintelligibility, Jabberwocky, Flummery, Mummery, Empty Talk, Empty Words, Hot Air, Palaver, Rhetoric, Rigamarole, Rigmarole, Schmegegge, Shmegegge, Hooey, Poppycock, Stuff, Stuff And Nonsense, Baloney, Bilgewater, Boloney, Bosh, Drool, Humbug, Taradiddle, Tarradiddle, Tommyrot, Tosh, Twaddle
Derivative terms: Meaningless, Nonsensical
Definition of Nonsensicality
1. Noun. The state or condition of being nonsensical. ¹
2. Noun. A nonsensical belief, remark, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsensicality
Literary usage of Nonsensicality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"Is there no like nonsensicality in the refutation of the axiom that the whole is
greater than the part ? And have we made "infinity" a more usable notion ..."
2. The Bookman (1905)
"This my reality— nonsensicality— Your immortality— Our cap and bells. 'Nuf of
this rot to-day, More again—not to-day. It's too—wow ! ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"This duty Friedrich Wilhelm, a solid Protestant after his sort, and convinced of
the 'nothingness and nonsensicality ..."
4. Original Narratives of Early American History by John Franklin Jameson (1913)
"... is, That a certain sill\r Scribbler, the very First-born of nonsensicality, (and
a Firstborn too, that one might Salute as the Martyr Polycarp once did ..."
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