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单词 no-meaning
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no-meaningn.

Brit. /ˌnəʊˈmiːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌnoʊˈminɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: no adj., meaning n.2
Etymology: < no adj. + meaning n.2
The absence or lack of meaning or purpose; nonsense; meaninglessness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun]
insolidity1578
emptiness1579
insignificancy1651
no-meaning1672
insignificance1754
inexpression1796
inexpressiveness1815
vacuousness1816
unmeaningness1825
unmeaning1839
pointlessness1845
non-significance1846
meaninglessness1853
unsuggestiveness1858
unexpressiveness1885
nonsense1942
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. i. 2 'Tis a phrase they have got among them, to express their no-meaning by.
1709 R. Gould Wks. I. 77 And he that had no Meaning to do wrong, Can't suffer, sure, for his No-meaning long.
1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 10 True No-meaning puzzles more than Wit.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 74 Cat'racts of declamation thunder here; There forests of no meaning spread the page.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 167 A little ugly, incongruous brick erection..the nature and no-meaning of which we cannot tell.
a1854 C. B. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) ii. 56 The friend..with a calm smile Of sweet no-meaning, gently answers—‘Yes, Indeed it's very pretty.’
1882 M. Oliphant Lit. Hist. Eng. III. 107 The quaint and delightful no-meaning of some of Shakspeare's snatches of spirit-song.
1994 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 54 497 Renga's absolute, the totally imagistic verse, commands respect for its integrity, its openness to no-meaning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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