English > hokum: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A message that seems to convey no meaning / meaning. |
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| Synonyms | nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness |
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| Narrower | absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness | A message whose content is at variance with reason |
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| amphigory, nonsense verse | Nonsensical writing (usually verse) |
| balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle | Trivial nonsense |
| baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | pretentious or silly talk or writing |
| buzzword, cant | Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition |
| cobblers | nonsense |
| crock | nonsense |
| fa la, fal la | meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong |
| gibberish, gibber | unintelligible talking |
| incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility | nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible |
| jabberwocky | Nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) |
| mummery, flummery | meaningless ceremonies and flattery |
| palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric | Loud and confused and empty talk |
| rigmarole, rigamarole | A set of confused and meaningless statements |
| shmegegge, schmegegge | (Yiddish) baloney |
| stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock | Senseless talk |
| Broader | message, content, subject matter, substance | What a communication that is about something is about |
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| Spanish | despropósito, disparate, hokum, nonsense, sinsentido, tontería |
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| Catalan | bajanada, despropòsit, disbarat, hokum |
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