Meaning of nonnonsense | Babel Free

Definitions

rare spelling of non-nonsense.

alt-of, rare, uncountable

Examples

“This is a highly technical term that is used by philosophers to talk⟳ nonsense, and I didn’t think⟳ what he was saying was at all nonsense. But I was not quite sure what kind of nonnonsense it was!”

“Rene has played wonderfully a nonnonsense security chief, comic foil to Shirmerman but has also convincingly played a betrayer.”

“A defective sentence like⟳ / *Shakespeare writed gooder than Fletcher / has a recoverable unified meaning despite its ungrammaticality (in each case morphotactic to lexical realization errors). / With this reservation, what distinguishes nonsense from nonnonsense?”

“I have⟳ picked up this Teach⟳ Yourself Astrology by Jeff Mayo. It seems like⟳ a good nonnonsense book.”

“> [snip nonsense] / [nonnonsense reinstated]”

“If you should have⟳ forgotten, here comes a remainder: Your idiotic nonsense is idiotic nonsense, and nonnonsense was, by and large, not to be seen from you during the last⟳ 10 years.”

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