nonsensification

plural nonsensifications

1. rareThe act of producing nonsense; the nonsense so produced.

   Simon Weil considered "nonsensification" to be characteristic of fascist regimes.

   1992, A. E. Barshay, "Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 382 n.44

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   "Only a simple suffumigation," said the Baronet, "accompanied by availing ourselves of the suitable planetary hour." "Simple suffumigation? simple nonsensification—planetary hour? planetary fiddlestick!"

   1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Antiquary: Volume II

   "Nonsensification": Senseless associations are concocted as a strategy of confusion, especially by compulsives.

   1959, J. A. M. Meerloo, “Psychoanalysis as an Experiment in Communication”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 46, number 1, page 80

   The Child's Conception of Space (Piaget & Inhelder, 1956) represents a tremendous mental effort to describe the metaphysical contents of Space, the marvelous monads, without really communicating it to anyone. . . . This book is an extraordinary example of nonsensification.

   2001, Webster R. Calloway, Jean Piaget: A Most Outrageous Deception, →ISBN, page 122