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senselessness|ˈsɛnslɪsnɪs|
[-ness.]
1. Absence of or incapacity for feeling (physical or mental); insensibility, impassibility. Also, unconscious or insensible condition, as in sleep, coma, etc. Now rare.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades iii. iii. (1592) 302 Which cannot choose but happen to them which of pacience doo make a kinde of sencelesnesse. 1583B. Googe Let. in N. & Q. Ser. iii. III. 243 The people (exceptynge theyr blindnesse, or rather senselessnesse in relygyon) live in as goodd order as maye bee. 1601Deacon & Walker Answ. Darel 36 Besides this sencelessnes of bodie: he foamed at the mouth like an Horse. 1643Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Miscell. I. 173 He was brocht in to Jonet Sklateris hous in Cogare, heavilie diseasit with a senslesnes, that he knew not quhat was said or done to him. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 198 Using divers remedies respecting her senselessness, Head, Throat, and Brest, in so much that within 14 hours, she began to speak. 1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. 75 The true cause of this carelessness and neglect is a senselessness in religion. 1813Shelley Q. Mab ix. 86 Unchecked by dull and selfish chastity, That virtue of the cheaply virtuous, Who pride themselves in senselessness and frost. 1822–9Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 602 [They] fall down instantly in a state of senselessness and apparent death. 1839Bailey Festus (1848) 43 A swimming, swollen senselessness of soul.
†b. Absence of sense or appreciation of something. Obs.
1618Townson in Gutch Coll. Cur. (1781) II. 422 Out of an humour of vain-glory or..senselessness of his own estate. 1796F. Burney Camilla iv. ii. 37 A hasty challenge..was accepted with a horse laugh of brutal senselessness of danger.
2. Foolishness, irrationality.
1611Cotgr., Stupidité, stupiditie, sencelesnesse. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 48 It is a brutish stupiditie and sencelesseness, both in yong and old men, to promise to themselues to morrow. 1681Grew Musæum i. ii. iii. 44 The senselesness of the tradition of the Crocodiles moving his upper Jaw, is plain from [etc.]. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xvi, He said something in praise of your eyes, did he? Blind puppy! Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness! 1903Morley Gladstone viii. iii. (1905) II. 262 In a boundless coil of mischief pure senselessness will entangle you. |