English

Adjective

sensical ‎(comparative more sensical, superlative most sensical)

1. (neologism) That makes sense; showing internal logic; sensible.
   • 1986, Fred D'Agostino, Chomsky's System of Ideas, Clarendon Press, p. 189:

     A nonsensical sentence, then, is one which is inconsistent with S, while a sensical sentence is one which is consistent with S.

   • 1998, William Storm, After Dionysus: a theory of the tragic, Cornell University Press, p. 41

     It contains […] no intrinsic propositions concerning whether its effects are sensical or not.

   • 2001, Alexandra Styron, All the Finest Girls, Back Bay, p. 127:

     There I waited, exiled from the realm of sensical thoughts, for Lou's sons to find me.

   • 2004, John C. Welchman, Mike Kelley: Minor Histories, MIT Press, "Introduction", p. xxii:

     So it starts with the sensical, and through shifts in syntax and cadence, goes completely abstract.

Quotations

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Antonyms

• nonsensical

Related terms

• commonsensical

Anagrams

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