Difference between Nonsense and Meaninglessness

What is the difference between Nonsense and Meaninglessness?

Nonsense as a noun is letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning. while Meaninglessness as a noun is the state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.

Nonsense

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make nonsense of To attempt to dismiss as nonsense. To joke around, to waste time

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning. An untrue statement. Something foolish. A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear. A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Example sentence: There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Meaninglessness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.

We hope you now know whether to use Nonsense or Meaninglessness in your sentence.

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