Noun for bloody useless, absurd, ridiculous, crazy stuff that is usually a lot of fun.

To uptight people, nonsensities are dismissed (usually with a [hoity-toity] British accent) as rubbish and not worthy of their intelligence, time and attention.

To people who use it playfully to refer to themselves or something they like, there is an element of fondness or [self-deprecation] present.

"Nonsensities" is a word more nonsensical than "[nonsense]" because it has twice the number of syllables, and more nonsensical than "[nonsensicality]" because it is (surprisingly) unlisted on several major online dictionaries (despite returning more than 10,000 Google search hits) and therefore officially unrecognised as a legitimate word and truly regarded as nonsensical.

It is usually used in its plural form, because "nonsensity" is not nonsensical enough. Contrast with the word "[niceties]".

But don't take my word for any of this, I am merely spewing nonsensities.
> If you look beyond his nonsensities you will find that he is actually quite a sensitive and caring guy.

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学英语单词
actinomycin b
agamospermies
all-glass work
Ambato
analytic method
antagonistic system
anticat
arthropathy
automatic thresher
bright - eyed and bushy - tailed
bruce willis
bubals
career guidance
carinate birds
carnosol
cellotaph
cold-drawn pipe
comb-brush
commercial sites index
confiscate
constat
controlled avalanche device
description space
distribution gear
EMG
ethylene sulfide
ethylene-vinyl acetate
execting
exterior resonance
ferro-tech process
finite differential analysis
force transducer
forced sale value
form room
galvanized welded wire mesh
gamma-globulins
glycerin-gelatin peptone
go in at one ear and out at the other
groenberg
ground tackle
hemiamphidont
hexagon nut wrench
Holy Rollerism
Huangtu Tang
imagery training
IMS (information management system)
inhalant pore
irregular labor pain
jawclutch
kakergasia
lahmajoun
Lake Asphalites
leverstand
limberss
linear assignment
lone hand
Maranta arundinaceae
maximum belt slope
medicon
meturgeman
michotamia aurata
mim structures
mycorrhizal
non-restraints
nucleogony
oak-tag
oil-fields
photosets
pietri
pod pepper
post-geosynclinal epoch
Pseudonatrolite
random-fabrillated film yarn
rivet-head
rivularine
Rogelim
rolling chair
safe desaturation
scanning period
SCAVMs
Schwarzer Mann
septical
single threaded screw
sk-
skechers
slip-form
speed discrepancy
squirrell
standby hand control
supari
superligamen
textile auxiliary
thermo-shock test
TSEE
twisting to order manipulation
under ... feet
unplume
VHML
water-quality monitoring
wedge type ring
Yasenskaya
yellow sheets