Definition of "galimatias" [gal•i•ma•tias]

• Nonsense; gibberish. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Some of the galimatias regarding Sotomayor's identity has to do with lack of understanding of Puerto Rico's confused legal status."
• "Yet I went not; but thou, of the briefness of thy wit, hast journeyed from place to place, on the faith of a dream, which was but an idle galimatias of sleep."
• "Our geography was galimatias, and book-keeping a crime: the people must not think they were on a level with the learned, and the children must do this and that."