单词 | nonsensicality |
释义 | nonsensicalityn. The fact or quality of being nonsensical; an instance of this, a nonsensical thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] wantonnessc1405 absurdity1529 monstruousness1545 impertinency1573 ridiculousness1573 monstrousness1574 absurd1581 absurdness1582 incongruity1597 fancy1598 delirium1599 monstruosity1604 absurdum1606 foppishness1611 impertinence1616 nonsense1630 impertinentness1645 irrationality1647 monstrosity1651 nonsensicality1652 ridicule1668 ridicule1672 nonsensicalness1674 maggotry1706 preposterousness1727 zanyship1766 ridiculosity1773 drollness1823 stultification1832 nonsensity1834 farcicality1849 cockeyedness1858 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > state of being nonsensicality1652 nonsensicalness1674 twaddledom1837 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 1652 T. Peters Remedie against Ruine 20 Master Bond proves impar congressus, flies to supplications, where invents many nonsensicailities (as the author is credibly informed,) and the assembly is dismissed. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 96/1 A certain silly Scribler, the very First-born of Nonsensicality. 1815 C. Richardson Illustr. Eng. Philol. 55 He [sc. Johnson] indulges in a few nonsensicalities worth our notice. a1850 N. Hawthorne in J. Hawthorne Hawthorne & his Wife (1885) I. 498 She..keeps our little nonsensicalities from ourselves. 1920 A. S. P. Pattison Idea of God (ed. 2) 421 The nonsensicality one might say, of a world from which feeling and appreciation should be absent. 1959 A. Pap tr. R. Carnap in A. J. Ayer Logical Positivism (1966) iii. 69 These forms cannot even be constructed in the correct language of Column III. Nonetheless, their nonsensicality is not obvious. 1995 Interzone Nov. 33/3 A film of fascinating incoherences, which run much deeper than the familiar catalogue of nonsensicalities of detail. 2011 W. Child Wittgenstein iii. 71 On the conventional view, the nonsensicality of the Tractatus's own propositions follows directly from the positive theory of language that Wittgenstein is advancing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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