nonsensicalityn.
/ˌnɒnsɛnsᵻˈkalᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌnɑnˌsɛnsəˈkælədi/ 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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