nonsense
Betekenis
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- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- An untrue statement.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Frequentie
Met koppelteken als
non‧sense
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈnɒn.səns/
Etymologie
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”).
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