Synonyms for non-sense

Grammar : Noun

Spell : non-sens, -suhns

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɒn sɛns, -səns

Top 10 synonyms for non-sense

Other synonyms for the word non-sense

Définition of non-sense

Origin : 1610s, from non- + sense; perhaps influenced by French nonsens.

Example sentences :

In the never-troubled silence of the oak's inmost heart, the sense of hearing would be a non-sense.
Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre

Kant is here playing on the double meaning of the German sinnleeres—empty of sense and non-sense.
Extract from : « A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' » by Norman Kemp Smith

And words whereby we conceive nothing but the sound, are those we call Absurd, insignificant, and Non-sense.
Extract from : « Leviathan » by Thomas Hobbes

A term is not of course a mere word; a mere word is non-sense, for a sound by itself is not a word at all.
Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey

It would have been interesting, not as a testimony to Newton, but to the sense or non-sense of the examiners.
Extract from : « Pioneers of Science » by Oliver Lodge

To be trivial on a serious occasion, to be funereal at a banquet, to be long-winded ever—these are the marks of non-sense.
Extract from : « The Art of Public Speaking » by Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

The words were non-sense, as befitted the play, but the music was worthy of something better.
Extract from : « Whirligigs » by O. Henry

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