nonnonsense

English

Etymology

From non- + nonsense.

Noun

nonnonsense (uncountable)

  1. rare spelling of non-nonsense.
    • 1968, Psychological Issues, volume 6, page 127:
      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!
    • 1998 February 16, Daniel Tropea, “DS9's real strength - imho”, in alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 (Usenet):
      Rene has played wonderfully a nonnonsense security chief, comic foil to Shirmerman but has also convincingly played a betrayer.
    • 2001, Richard Gaskin, editor, Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Routledge, published 2002, →ISBN:
      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?
    • 2001 July 13, Deb Shanker, “Vajpayee`s stars brighter: astrologer”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet):
      I have picked up this Teach Yourself Astrology by Jeff Mayo. It seems like a good nonnonsense book.
    • 2002 May 8, Robert Myers, “US-TX-Austin: Senior Software Engineer (19471312)”, in austin.jobs (Usenet):
      > [snip nonsense] / [nonnonsense reinstated]
    • 2014 September 29, Ralf Bader, “Irrational numbers have no representation as decimal fractions.”, in sci.math (Usenet):
      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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