nonsense vs premise

nonsense

noun
  • A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear. 

  • That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense. 

  • Something foolish. 

  • Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning. 

  • An untrue statement. 

  • A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing. 

adj
  • Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid). 

  • Nonsensical. 

verb
  • To make nonsense of; 

  • To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny. 

  • To joke around, to waste time 

intj
  • An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with. 

premise

verb
  • To make a premise. 

  • To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows. 

  • To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument. 

  • To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. 

noun
  • Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. 

  • A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. 

  • A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts. 

  • The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story. 

  • Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. 

How often have the words nonsense and premise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )