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absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
a message whose content is at variance with reason
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amphigory, nonsense verse
nonsensical writing (usually verse)
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balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
trivial nonsense
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buzzword, cant
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
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cobblers
nonsense
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crock
nonsense; foolish talk
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fa la, fal la
meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong
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gibber, gibberish
unintelligible talking
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incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility
nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
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jabberwocky
nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
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flummery, mummery
meaningless ceremonies and flattery
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empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric
loud and confused and empty talk
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rigamarole, rigmarole
a set of confused and meaningless statements
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schmegegge, shmegegge
(Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense
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hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense
senseless talk
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baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
pretentious or silly talk or writing
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word salad
jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia
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abracadabra
gibberish and nonsense
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babble, babbling, lallation
gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
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blather, blatherskite
foolish gibberish
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double Dutch
an incomprehensible talk
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double talk
deliberately unintelligible gibberish
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gabble, jabber, jabbering
rapid and indistinct speech
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mumbo jumbo
language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion