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nonsensify

English

Etymology

nonsense +? -ify

Verb

nonsensify (third-person singular simple present nonsensifies, present participle nonsensifying, simple past and past participle nonsensified)

  1. (transitive and intransitive, rare) To treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
    • 1872, A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, Printed for private collection, "St. Peter's Complaint," p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2):
      Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting "works" for "words."
    • 1949, Wilson Library Bulletin, vol. 24, p. 241:
      The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.
    • 2001, Phillip Harth et al., Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, ?ISBN, p. 84:
      But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.
    • 2002, Alun Rees, "Golf: Maruyama outshone," Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.:
      The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled.

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nonsensification

English

Etymology

nonsense +? -ification

Noun

nonsensification (plural nonsensifications)

  1. (rare) The act of producing nonsense; the nonsense so produced.
    • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary: Volume II, ch. 1:
      "Only a simple suffumigation," said the Baronet, "accompanied by availing ourselves of the suitable planetary hour."
      "Simple suffumigation? simple nonsensification—planetary hour? planetary fiddlestick!"
    • 1959, J. A. M. Meerloo, "Psychoanalysis as an Experiment in Communication," The Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 46. no. 1, p. 80:
      "Nonsensification": Senseless associations are concocted as a strategy of confusion, especially by compulsives.
    • 1992, A. E. Barshay, "Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 382 n.44:
      Simon Weil considered "nonsensification" to be characteristic of fascist regimes.
    • 2001, Webster R. Calloway, Jean Piaget: A Most Outrageous Deception, ?ISBN, p. 122:
      The Child's Conception of Space (Piaget & Inhelder, 1956) represents a tremendous mental effort to describe the metaphysical contents of Space, the marvelous monads, without really communicating it to anyone. . . . This book is an extraordinary example of nonsensification.

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