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nonsensity | nonsensify |

As a noun nonsensity

is the quality of being nonsensical.

As a verb nonsensify is

(transitive|and|intransitive|rare) to treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

nonsensity

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being nonsensical.
  • * (Henry Adams)
    • 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.
  • *
    • 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?

    nonsensify

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, and, intransitive, rare) To treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
  • * 1872 , A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell , Printed for private collection, "St. Peter's Complaint," p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2):
    • Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting "works" for "words."
  • * 1949 , Wilson Library Bulletin, vol. 24, p. 241:
    • The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.
  • * 2001 , Phillip Harth et al.'', ''Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth , ISBN 9780299174804, p. 84:
    • But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.
  • * 2002 , Alun Rees, "Golf: Maruyama outshone," Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.:
    • The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled.

    Derived terms

    * nonsensification