nonsense (n)
bunk#1 (n)
nonsensicality (n)
meaninglessness (n)
hokum (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def a message that seems to convey no meaning
Outgoing links
Hypernym message, content, subject matter, substance
Derivationally related form meaninglessness → meaningless
Derivationally related form nonsensicality → nonsensical
Hyponym absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness; amphigory, nonsense verse; balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle; buzzword, cant; cobblers; crock; fa la, fal la; gibberish, gibber; incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility; jabberwocky; mummery, flummery; palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric; rigmarole, rigamarole; shmegegge, schmegegge; stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock; baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
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Derivationally related form meaningless → meaninglessness
Derivationally related form nonsensical → nonsensicality
Hyponym message, content, subject matter, substance
Hypernym absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness; amphigory, nonsense verse; balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle; buzzword, cant; cobblers; crock; fa la, fal la; gibberish, gibber; incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility; jabberwocky; mummery, flummery; palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric; rigmarole, rigamarole; shmegegge, schmegegge; stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock; baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle

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