nonsensibility
nonsensibility noun: the quality of being nonsensible.
Noun
nonsensibility (uncountable)
- The quality of being nonsensible.
- Oghone, Miss Malone, I’ll tache you some civility! Judy O’Doody, escape if you can! I’m the boy that will bother your nonsensibility, / Loving most women—and fearing no man:[…]1842, Edward N. Shannon, “The Flaming O’Flanagans”, in Tales, Old and New, with Other Lesser Poems, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Co.; Dublin: Machen, stanza I, page 307
- New comers at an hotel are generally made objects of gapeseed—here all seemed thrown together without the stiffness and restraint of ordinary British nonsensibility, and in five minutes I was deep in all the mysteries of kennel management—the merits of the Peterborough hound show, and so through...1887 August, Borderer, “A Pillar of Salt”, in Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume the forty-eighth, London: A. H. Baily & Co., published 1888, pages 12–13
Forms of nonsensibility
| alternative form | non-sensibility |
|---|
Origin of nonsensibility
From non- + sensibility.
Questions about nonsensibility
- What does nonsensibility mean?
- Nonsensibility means the quality of being nonsensible.
- What part of speech is nonsensibility?
- Nonsensibility is a noun.
Words near nonsensibility in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nonsensibility (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “nonsensibility.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonsensibility. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
