Nonsense
Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning. In the philosophy of language and philosophy of science, nonsense is distinguished from sense or meaningfulness, and attempts have been made to come up with a coherent and consistent method of distinguishing sense from nonsense. It is also an important field of study in cryptography regarding separating a signal from noise.
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Famous quotes containing the word nonsense:
“Poet, patting more nonsense foamed
From the sea, conceive for the courts
Of these academies, the diviner health
Disclosed in common forms.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)