Meanings
nounnonsensity (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being nonsensical.
And have I not for years pleaded the nonsensity of taking seriously the comparisons of fantastic quantities of overkill on which the SALT negotiations have been based?
2014, George F. Kennan, The Kennan Diaries1 more example
Nothing could surpass the nonsensity of trying to run so complex and so concentrated a machine by southern and western farmers in grotesque alliance with city day laborers.
1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
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
- Englishnonsensity
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APA
nonsensity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonsensity
MLA
“nonsensity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonsensity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonsensity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonsensity.
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