nonsensity

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English

Etymology

From nonsense +‎ -ity.

Noun

nonsensity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being nonsensical.
    • 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
      Nothing could surpass the nonsensity of trying to run so complex and so concentrated a machine by southern and western farmers in grotesque alliance with city day laborers.
    • 2014, George F. Kennan, The Kennan Diaries:
      And have I not for years pleaded the nonsensity of taking seriously the comparisons of fantastic quantities of overkill on which the SALT negotiations have been based?