"nonsensibility" meaning in All languages combined

See nonsensibility on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From non- + sensibility. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|non|sensibility}} non- + sensibility Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} nonsensibility (uncountable)
  1. The quality of being nonsensible. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: non-sensibility
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          "text": "The suggestion that the Higgs boson ‘explains’ the creation of the universe by giving mass to something that exists without having any existence is also as breathtakingly surreal as the suggestion that the universe came about when God breathed life into it. It is not possible to envisage any process which might underlie either. So why do so many of us express a preference for scientific nonsensibility rather than religious nonsensibility, when both are equally experientially bankrupt?",
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