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senselessness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of deficient in or contrary to sense without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things --Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. --- {Sense"less*ly}, adv -- {Sense"less*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: senselessness n : total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: {inanity}, {mindlessness}, {vacuity}, {pointlessness}]
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