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Nonsensicality

Definition: Nonsensicality

Nonsensicality

Noun

1. A message that seems to convey no meaning.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Nonsensicality

Synonyms: hokum (n), meaninglessness (n), nonsense (n). (additional references)

Photo Album: Nonsensicality

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	Gilmore & Leonard in their Irish nonsensicality, Hogan's alley by W.H. Macart.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Nonsensicality

Language		Translations for "nonsensicality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Vietnamese		tính chất vô lý (nonsensicalness), điều bậy bạ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Nonsensicality

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-o-s-s-t-y"
	-3 letters: incessantly, intensional, nonsensical.
	-4 letters: actionless, anticlines, clintonias, coastlines, innocently, insistency, instancies, intensions, lanosities, lineations, nonelastic, noninsects, sectionals, socialites.
	-5 letters: alienists, anciently, anticline, antinoise, ascension, asininely, cannelons, canniness, canoeists, canonises, canonists, cessation, clintonia, coastline, colistins, colitises, connately, cytosines, inactions, incessant, inelastic, innocents, insolates, insolents, instances, intension, isoclines, lenitions, lineation, lyonnaise, nicotines, noninsect, nonsaline, nonstyles.
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Alternative Orthography: Nonsensicality

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 6E 73 65 6E 73 69 63 61 6C 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-. --- -. ... . -. ... .. -.-. .- .-.. .. - -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01101110 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006E 0073 0065 006E 0073 0069 0063 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4881808571808575696778758691

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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