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1. A message that seems to convey no meaning
   - bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
    
2. Ornamental objects of no great value
   - folderal [non-standard], falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, trumpery [archaic], falderal
    
3. (genetics) a mutation that causes a peptide chain to end prematurely

1. Having no intelligible meaning
   "nonsense syllables"
   - nonsensical

Derived forms: nonsenses

See also: meaningless, nonmeaningful

Type of: content, decoration, message, ornament, ornamentation, subject matter, substance

Encyclopedia: Nonsense