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| absurdist |
having or expressing the belief that human existence and behavior are meaningless or absurd. [1/3 definitions] |
| babble |
to speak incoherently or with meaningless sounds. [2/8 definitions] |
| blather |
meaningless or foolish chatter. [1/2 definitions] |
| blatherskite |
one who is given to meaningless or foolish chatter. [1/2 definitions] |
| bosh |
(informal) foolish or meaningless talk; nonsense. |
| chickenshit |
(vulgar slang) petty or meaningless matters. [1/3 definitions] |
| double-talk |
unintelligible or meaningless talk, usu. uttered rapidly, in which nonsense sounds are intermixed with real words. [1/3 definitions] |
| empty |
lacking force; insincere; meaningless. [1/10 definitions] |
| flummery |
foolish or meaningless talk or flattery. [1/2 definitions] |
| gobbledygook |
wordy, unclear language, with roundabout expressions and generally meaningless phrases. |
| hocus-pocus |
meaningless or nonsensical words or phrases repeated by magicians. [1/2 definitions] |
| hogwash |
nonsensical, meaningless, or worthless talk or writing. [1/2 definitions] |
| jargon1 |
any confusing, pretentious, or meaningless words or language; gibberish. [1/3 definitions] |
| logical positivism |
a movement in philosophy that views philosophy as a way of analyzing and criticizing science, and that holds that all statements not based on observation, experience, or the rules of language are meaningless. |
| mumbo jumbo |
language or ritual activity that is unintelligible, meaningless, or confusing; hocus-pocus. |
| nihilism |
a philosophy that holds that there is no objective basis for moral truths and therefore traditional values are meaningless. [1/3 definitions] |
| noise |
in electronics, a random, meaningless, or interfering signal. [1/6 definitions] |
| nonsense |
something, or a collection of things, that is meaningless, illogical, foolish, or absurd. [1/4 definitions] |
| nonsensical |
making no sense; meaningless; foolish. |
| pageantry |
vain showiness; overdone or meaningless display. [1/3 definitions] |
| patter2 |
rapid, often meaningless chatter. [1/5 definitions] |
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