单词 | nonsensible |
释义 | nonsensibleadj. 1. Philosophy. Not accessible to investigation by the senses; inapprehensible. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > abstract or relating to abstraction mathematical1547 abstract1557 abstracted1605 inconcretea1626 nonsensible1838 unembodied1841 abstractional1842 discrete1851 1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason i. 70 The understanding was before explained merely negatively—as a non-sensible cognition—faculty. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. viii. 137 Every figurative transfer which ever made a successful designation for some non-sensible act or relation..rested upon a previous perception of analogy. 1935 Philos. Rev. 44 429 Moreover, no science, Telesio states, is really based upon such universals, or upon any other purely non-sensible material. 1964 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 25 227 Discussing the failure of the specific content of some sense experience to accord with its nonsensible object or referent. 1995 Philos. Rev. 104 115 That class is more diverse than is generally recognized, since it includes a nonsensible property that has no tail to wag. 2. Unintelligible; not reasonable or judicious; nonsensical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective] emptya1225 sleevelessc1450 dumb1531 insensible1538 senseless1579 weetless1579 unsignificant1603 surd1605 matterless1612 unmeaning1632 non-significative1633 brute1642 shelly1648 insignificant1651 insignificative1660 unsignificative1664 unsignifying1665 unsensed1667 meaningless1728 bilka1734 meanless1734 inexpressive1744 unideal1751 unexpressive1755 idealess1793 unsuggestive1797 tenorless1821 themeless1840 nonsensible1851 inarticulate1855 purportless1865 expressionless1871 vacuous1872 contentless1886 unmeaningful1897 1851 J. E. Millais in J. G. Millais Life & Lett. Sir J. E. Millais (1899) I. iv. 124 Forgive this nonsensible scribble. 1962 W. H. Burton Guidance Learning Activities 306 Sensible explanations of what often appear to be non-sensible statements made by pupils. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Aug. 17 A vehicle for the performers to engage us with nonsensible farce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1838 |
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