NOUN
- (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
- a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
How To Use non sequitur In A Sentence
- And yet there's the childlike irreverence at times, the giggles, the non sequiturs, the references to such inane activities as shopping.
- I gotta show Pseud, the bluffer, what a non sequitur is, by demonstrating what it is not: I noted that, as a rule, it is very rare for a candidate to lose many votes because they voted against something that passed. Matthew Yglesias » The Repealers
- He even appreciates the aesthetics of the game, wherein lies a kind of abstract expressionism - the non sequiturs, the shapes of words themselves, the improbable consonance of consonants.
- She gave him a slightly scornful glance, and he racked his brains to see if he could find the reason for the non sequitur.
- But you said you were coming by train," said Gwen, in what seemed a complete non sequitur. LOST CHILDREN
- The rabbit was a non sequitur.
- We can scale up an oxymoron such as "He froze, turning his head slowly to look," into the more complex sort of narrative non sequiturs we get in absurdist or surrealist fiction, the discontinuities that give these works their oneiric quality, the discombobulation engendered where the sentences don't build up into a sensible sequence. Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
- Non sequiturs, tautologies, obiter dicta, wild generalizations, malapropisms and clichés abound. The Times Literary Supplement
- The indignant theorist casts aspersions on their methods, inserts a non sequitur regarding its effects and explains how this is frightfully unfair for the "little guy".
- And with that non sequitur, he began to head up Molly's walk. BAD MEDICINE