What is the Japanese word that sounds like English word "Nonsense" and what is its meaning?


I just heard a Japanese man say what sounded like "Nonsense" said with
American accent immediately followed by Japanese "ka ne". Assuming he didn't
throw a single American English word in his speech what is this Japanese word
and its meaning? Sounds like "Nansenskane".




This would be ナンセンス (nansensu), which means almost the same as English
"nonsense". Daijirin also mentions ナンセンス文学 ("nonsense-literature"), which
refers to the genre exemplified by Lewis Carroll. ([Japanese Wikipedia
article](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6)
- links to English article ["Literary
nonsense"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_nonsense))

