nonsense
English
/ˈnɑnsɛns/, /ˈnɒnsəns/
noun
Definitions
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- An untrue statement.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by .
- (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Etymology
Affix from English sense.
Origin
English
sense
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ambisense English
- antisense English
- commonsense English
- countersense English
- cowsense English
- foresense English
- lack-mind English
- mechanosense English
- missense English
- multisense English
- nonsensely English
- nonsensic English
- nonsensical English
- nonsensicality English
- nonsensically English
- nonsensicalness English
- nonsensification English
- nonsensify English
- nonsensity English
- oversense English
- sensable English
- sense English
- senseful English
- senseless English
- sensely English
- sensemaking English
- sensest English
- senseth English
- sensical English
- sensigenous English
- sensism English
- sensist English
- sensive English
- sensor English
- subsense English
- supersense English
- undersense English
- unsense English
- Sinn German
- Unsinn German
- nonszensz Hungarian
- senso Italian
- nonsens Dutch, Flemish
- onzin Dutch, Flemish
- zin Dutch, Flemish
- センス Japanese
- ナンセンス Japanese
- nonsens Polish
- sense Middle English
- nonsens Danish
- nonsens Indonesian
- onsin Middle Dutch
- sense Afrikaans
- unsin Middle High German
- 난센스 Korean
- 센스쟁이 Korean
- nonsense Mauritian Creole
- sense
- sensor
- sensest
- sensism
- unsense
- sensely
- sensive
- sensist
- senseth
- cowsense
- sensable
- senseful
- subsense
- missense
- sensical
- antisense
- ambisense
- foresense
- nonsensic
- oversense
- lack-mind
- senseless
- nonsensify
- supersense
- nonsensely
- nonsensity
- multisense
- undersense
- commonsense
- sensemaking
- nonsensical
- sensigenous
- countersense
- mechanosense
- nonsensically
- nonsensicality
- nonsensicalness
- nonsensification