nonnonsense
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- ▲ English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense English nonnonsense From non- + nonsense.