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English
Etymology
nonsense + -ification
Noun
nonsensification (plural nonsensifications)
- (rare) The act of producing nonsense; the nonsense so produced.
1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Antiquary: Volume II:"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”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 46, number 1, page 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, page 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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