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Definition of Nonsense
Nonsense

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

Trifles; things of no importance.

Related Definitions:
Absurdity, Convey, Have, Has, Ideas, Importance, Intelligible, Is, Language, Meaning, No, Not, Of, Or, Sense, That, Which


Nonsense Quotations

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
Ann Coulter

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace Walpole

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis

Nonsense Translations

nonsense in Dutch is nonsens, onzin, zever, gekheid
nonsense in Italian is nonsenso
nonsense in Latin is somnium
nonsense in Portuguese is absurdo
nonsense in Swedish is dumheter


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