non-sense

See also: nonsense

English

Noun

non-sense (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of nonsense
    • 1998, David Grant, Tom W Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Discourse and Organization‎:
      At the core of our study is the way each approach can illuminate the process of sense-making by its opposite, which we call "non-sense".
    • 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 25:
      something about this passage may have actually affected me, which I know doesn't exactly follow, especially since that would imply something in it really does make sense, and I just got finished calling it non-sense.
    • 2004, M. Rajamanickam, Experimental Psychology With Advanced Experiments‎:
      The non-sense syllable HOX is remembered as COCK and the non-sense syllable GAH is remembered as GOAT.
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