Softcore noncing

We're not talking hardcore noncing, where you're literally diddling kids. We're talking softcore noncing, where you're an 18 year old hanging around maccies in your corsa looking for 16 year olds.

Oh Dave? Don't talk to him, he's into softcore noncing

by BILLY DOMES July 19, 2023

The nance

The pregnancy. (Short for pregnancy)

I do not have the nance.

You have the nance, don't you?

Fuck me from the back, I can't get the nance!

by LingDanc803 October 17, 2023

Dry noncing

A joyless act of noncing performed during a period of sobriety

He was so bored at the party, he ended up dry noncing a boar

by Foinqy January 31, 2024

casual nonchalance

Casual nonchalance is a gesture where the person puts both their hands in their pockets and just shrugs like they causally don't care about the situation.

A: *puts his hands in his pockets - a gesture of casual nonchalance* I don't care really...
B: You're so casually nonchalant about this whole situation!

by Nyxcastellan February 11, 2024

Bare Nonchalant

Nonchalant: meaning of the word is equivalent to the known demon named AD. He is so lowkey and nonchalant. He walks around hoodie up rocking double airpods. He’s so known but unknown because he’s bare lowkey and shi. He’s off the radar and better yet still off the grid.

Yo ur bare nonchalant

by lowekyandshi March 7, 2024

Nasty Nance

A big motherfucker who works at Walmart and smells of Busch latte, weed, and Marlboro reds.

I remember my first time seeing a Nasty Nance

by McNuggetsniffer August 13, 2025

Hard Problem of the Nocebo Effect

The ethical and clinical dilemma of how to inform patients of risks without inducing those very risks through the information itself. The principle of informed consent demands full disclosure of potential side effects. But the act of disclosure can dramatically increase the likelihood and severity of those effects via the nocebo pathway. This puts doctors in a Catch-22: withhold information and be unethical, or disclose it and potentially harm the patient through the power of suggestion. Medicine has no good protocol for navigating this.

Example: A doctor must prescribe a statin. The leaflet lists possible side effects: muscle pain, fatigue, cognitive fog. The patient, now anxious and hyper-vigilant, experiences all three. It's impossible to clinically distinguish between a genuine pharmacological side effect and a nocebo-induced one. The hard problem: How do you practice evidence-based, ethical medicine when the communication of evidence becomes a potent confounding variable that can generate its own adverse data? The diagnostic process can become pathogenic. Hard Problem of the Nocebo Effect.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026