English

Noun

non-sense ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of nonsense
   • 2000, Leaves of Grass, by Mark Z. Danielewski, page 25:

     something about this passage may have actually affected me, which I know doesn't exactly follow, especially since that would imply something in it really does make sense, and I just got finished calling it non-sense.

2. Something that does not make sense.
   • 1998, Discourse and Organization, David Grant, Tom W Keenoy, Cliff Oswick:

     At the core of our study is the way each approach can illuminate the process of sense-making by its opposite, which we call "non-sense".

   • 2004, M. Rajamanickam, Experimental Psychology With Advanced Experiments:

     The non-sense syllable HOX is remembered as COCK and the non-sense syllable GAH is remembered as GOAT.