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Act vs Nonsensification - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between act and nonsensification

is that act is (countable) something done, a deed while nonsensification is (rare) the act of producing nonsense; the nonsense so produced.

As a verb act

is to do something.

act

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Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a federal territory of Australia.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the (term).
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    • Coordinate terms

    * (American College Test) SAT , GMAT , MCAT , DAT

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    nonsensification

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) The act of producing nonsense; the nonsense so produced.
  • * 1816 , , The Antiquary: Volume II , ch. 1:
    • "Only a simple suffumigation," said the Baronet, "accompanied by availing ourselves of the suitable planetary hour."
    "Simple suffumigation? simple nonsensification —planetary hour? planetary fiddlestick!"
  • * 1959 , J. A. M. Meerloo, "Psychoanalysis as an Experiment in Communication," The Psychoanalytic Review , vol. 46. no. 1, p. 80:
    • "Nonsensification ": Senseless associations are concocted as a strategy of confusion, especially by compulsives.
  • * 1992 , A. E. Barshay, "Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies , vol. 18, no. 2, p. 382 n.44:
    • Simon Weil considered "nonsensification " to be characteristic of fascist regimes.
  • * 2001 , Webster R. Calloway, Jean Piaget: A Most Outrageous Deception , ISBN 9781560729501, p. 122:
    • 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 .

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    * nonsensify