QAnonsense en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌkju əˈnɑnsɛns/ (General-American)
- /ˌkjuː əˈnɒnsəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree English QAnon Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense blend English QAnonsense Blend of QAnon + nonsense.
Meanings
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(derogatory, uncountable) Conspiracy theories or other statements by followers of QAnon that are asserted to be nonsense.
Those who subscribe to QAnonsense are too far gone, and the relatively sane Republicans will call you a socialist no matter what.
2021 January 20, Garrett Snedaker, “Letters to the Editor”, in The New York Times, page 26:We would be wise not to laugh at the antics of Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spouted QAnonsense and compared mask mandates to the Nazi treatment of Jews, or else she could ride similar waves of derision to even greater political heights.
2021 June 9, John Feffer, “We’re not out of the woods yet”, in The Nation:Will our next president need to replace Trump’s appointees with people who are loyal to our Constitution rather than Trump’s deep state swamp Qanonsense? Probably the sooner we find out the answer to that the better.
2020 June 5, Don Galloway, “After Trump is gone”, in The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Friday’s Letters to the Editor: