Noun: nonsense
| Singular | nonsense |
| Plural | nonsenses |
Sample Sentences
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After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
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You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever. [1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 21:]
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While at the hospital, David kept screaming and yelling nonsense, stating Vladimir Putin bailed him out of jail and is a god. [2022 April 13, “Man Gets Arrested Twice in One Day”, in Code Blue Cam:]
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and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up. [2008 October 9, “Nick Leeson has some lessons for this collapse”, in Telegraph.co.uk:]
Nouns inflected like nonsense
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Germanic *ne
4. Proto-Indo-European *ís?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
6. Proto-Germanic *ainaz
7. Proto-Germanic *nainaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *nain
9. Old English nān
10. Middle English non
11. ▲
12. Old English nān
13. Old English nān-
14. Middle English non-
15. English non-
16. Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
17. Proto-Italic *sentiō
18. Latin sentiō
19. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
20. Proto-Italic *-tus
21. Latin -tus
22. Latin sēnsusbor.
23. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
24. Frankish *sinnbor.
25. Vulgar Latin *sennus
26. Old French sensbor.
27. Middle English sense
28. English sense
29. English nonsense
30. From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”). See: Dutch Nouns '
onzin', German Nouns '
Unsinn', English Nouns '
unsense'.
Verbs referencing "nonsense"
Finnish Nouns
nonsense, Dutch Nouns
onzin, Dutch Nouns
nonsens, Slovak Nouns
nonsens, Swedish Nouns
nonsens, French Nouns
non-sens, Russian Nouns
нонсенс, Ukrainian Nouns
нонсенс, Hungarian Nouns
nonszensz.