Literary notes about Nonsensical (AI summary)
The term nonsensical in literature is often deployed as a pointed critique to label ideas, dialogue, or behaviors that defy logical expectations. Authors use it to underscore absurdity or irrationality; for instance, it dismisses the naive or ill-conceived notions of a character or society—one work even condemns “the nonsensical ideas of the newcomers” [1] while another critiques an argument as “fundamentally nonsensical” [2]. At times, it appears in character descriptions, where vanity or misguided beliefs are rebuked as nonsensical, as seen when a protagonist is chided for harboring “nonsensical vanity” [3] or when a character’s musings are deemed little more than “nonsensical talk” [4]. Whether undermining philosophical assertions or mocking mundane irrelevancies, the adjective encapsulates a literary strategy for distinguishing between what is regarded as coherent and what falls into the realm of absurdity [5, 6].