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non-sense en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative spelling of nonsense.
    alt of nonsense
    • At the core of our study is the way each approach can illuminate the process of sense-making by its opposite, which we call "non-sense". 1998, David Grant, Tom W Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Discourse and Organization:
    • The non-sense syllable HOX is remembered as COCK and the non-sense syllable GAH is remembered as GOAT. 2004, M. Rajamanickam, Experimental Psychology With Advanced Experiments:
    • something about this passage may have actually affected me, which I know doesn't exactly follow, especially since that would imply something in it really does make sense, and I just got finished calling it non-sense. 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 25: