Meanings
- uncountablenonsensicality
1 more example
Dr. O’Donoghue, who was raised Roman Catholic, is the author of “The Sky Is Not a Ceiling: An Astronomer’s Faith,” in which she describes how she lost and then rediscovered God “in the vastness, the weirdness, the abundance, the seeming nonsensicalness, and even the violence of this incredible universe.”
2009 June 23, George Johnson, “Vatican’s Celestial Eye, Seeking Not Angels but Data”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- 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 Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*sent-
- Proto-Italic*sentiō
- Latinsentiō
- Latinsēnsu
- Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
- Frankish*sinn
- Vulgar Latin*sennus
- Old Frenchsens
- Middle Englishsense
- Englishsense
- Englishnonsense
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishnonsensical
- Englishnonsensicalness
From nonsensical + -ness.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
nonsensicalness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonsensicalness
“nonsensicalness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonsensicalness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonsensicalness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonsensicalness.
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