English > nonsense: 3 senses > noun 1, communicationMeaning | A message that seems to convey no meaning / meaning. |
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Synonyms | bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum |
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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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