单词 | senselessness |
释义 | senselessnessn. 1. a. The state or condition of being unconscious or insentient; absence of or incapacity for physical or mental feeling; insensibility. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [noun] unfeelingness1398 insensibility?1510 senselessness1577 indolency1603 stupidity1603 unfeeling1603 torpidity1614 torpor1626 sleepiness1647 indolence1656 insensibleness1656 narcosis1671 torpidnessa1676 torpitude1713 anaesthesia1721 deadness1764 insentience1862 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion dryheada1300 lethargyc1380 drynessc1450 dumping1542 unsensibility1551 insensibleness?1555 unsensibleness?1555 stupidity1568 stolidity1570 stupor1570 dumpishness1574 senselessness1577 innaturality1579 astoniedness1580 impassibility1603 stupefaction1603 torpor1607 deadness1611 unsufferance1611 hebetude1621 nonsense1621 drought1622 hebetation1623 obstupefaction1625 unanswerableness1626 tastelessnessa1631 insensateness1646 impassiveness1648 obtuseness1648 barrenness1655 torpulency1657 sterility1661 spiritlessness1669 unspiritedness1669 unaffectedness1678 insensibility1691 stolidness1727 apathy1742 impenetrableness1747 unfeelingness1766 impassivity1794 unfeeling1805 soullessness1811 incommobility1822 obtusity1823 unimpressibleness1830 hardhead1836 stockishness1837 insensitiveness1838 impenetrability1847 unreceptivity1849 unsusceptibility1850 woodenness1854 unimpressionability1862 irresponsiveness1864 unresponsiveness1869 impassibleness1874 irreceptivity1881 unimpressibility1889 apatheia1893 inemotivity1894 affectlessness1921 insensitivity1957 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] insensibility?1510 senselessness1577 death1596 ecstasy1598 ecstasis1621 unconsciousness1732 insentience1862 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. iii. sig. Diijv/1 Which cannot choose but happen to them which of patience doo make a kinde of senselesnesse [L. stuporem]. 1583 B. Googe Let. 11 Mar. in Notes & Queries (1863) 28 Mar. 243/1 The people (exceptynge theyr blindnesse, or rather senselessnesse in relygyon,) lyve in as goodd order as maye bee. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel i. 36 Besides this sencelessnes of bodie: hee foamed at the mouth like an Horse. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire viii. 198 Using divers remedies respecting her senselessness, Head, Throat, and Brest, in so much that within 14 hours, she began to speak. 1703 L. Smith Evid. Things not Seen (ed. 2) 32 Falling into a state of interrupted Activity and Senselessness during its [sc. the soul's] Absence from the Body. 1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air II. 444 Senselessness, Stupidity, Vomiting, Loathing; Heart trembling, Breast opprest, Inflammation, Sighing, Fainting [etc.] 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 115 Unchecked by dull and selfish chastity, That virtue of the cheaply virtuous, Who pride themselves in senselessness and frost. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 70 A swimming, swollen senselessness of soul. 1904 E. Kraepelin Lect. on Clin. Psychiatry 138 Senselessness and bewilderment..are particularly diagnostic of this form of insanity. 1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Dec. a 23 A sport in which two people are literally paid to get into a ring and try to beat one another to death, or..into a state of senselessness. 2002 Hindustan Times 24 Aug. i. 10/4 They sing and dance and sometimes collapse into a state of senselessness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [noun] unsensibleness?1555 headlesshood1579 senselessness1580 vacuity1593 incomprehension1605 insensibleness1610 unintelligiblenessa1631 insensateness1646 mindlessness1646 inapprehensiveness1652 unapprehensiveness1669 non-intelligencea1674 unperceivingnessa1688 inapprehension1745 inconception1761 brainlessness1832 vacancy1841 uncomprehension1862 1580 T. Wilcox in tr. J. Calvin Three Propositions Ep. Ded. ☞.5v Satan and sinne hold the most part of men Captiues in senselesnes of their euill. 1618 R. Townson Let. 9 Nov. in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 422 Out of an humour of vain-glory or..senselessnesse of his own estate. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. ii. 237 A hasty challenge, which was accepted with a horse laugh of brutal senselessness of danger. 2. Stupidity, foolishness; lack of meaning, purpose, or intelligibility. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] unwisdomc825 unredeeOE egedec1175 unwitc1175 unwisdomnessa1200 dusileca1225 dusischipa1225 folly?c1225 kangschipe?c1225 unwitshipa1250 unwisenessa1340 cornardy1340 unwithead1340 lewdness1362 nicetyc1380 sotie1390 folitya1400 follinessa1400 foolheada1400 insipiencec1422 fondnessa1425 wanwita1425 cocardyc1430 foltry1440 jopperyc1440 folliheada1450 fonning?a1475 niceheada1475 foltheadc1475 folabilitya1529 daftness1552 foolageness1563 foppery1592 guckry1596 senselessness1606 coxcombry1608 goosery1642 ineptitude1656 fopicalness1660 fopperishness1683 insagacity1808 spoonery1824 spooniness1824 noodleism1830 addle-headedness1835 foolishment1852 insapiency1876 ineptness1877 goosiness1888 inepticality1923 sappiness1943 gormlessness1958 1606 A. Wotton Def. M. Perkins Bk. ix. 580 Your Images are your owne wicked deuices, and haue no promise of Gods presence: therefore it is senselesnes to kneele before them. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. iii. 44 The senselesness of the tradition of the Crocodiles moving his upper Jaw, is plain from the strcuture of the Bones. 1705 W. Jameson Cyprianus Isotimus ii. 200 All these his Instances were the product of Senselesness scarce parallelable. 1765 A. Cruden Compend. Holy Bible (ed. 2) (Isaiah xxix) The senselessness, and deep hypocrisy of the Jews. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. i. 17 He said something in praise of your eyes, did he? Blind puppy! Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness! 1862 Church Rev. July 645 We know what senselessness is, and we know there is the most astonishing amount of it in Pulpits and Theological schools. 1903 tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 1078 in J. Morley Life Gladstone III. viii. iii. 22 In a boundless coil of mischief pure senselessness will entangle you. 1963 Sci. Fantasy June 9 He disliked the senselessness of wars such as this. 2013 Daily Tel. 31 July 18/2 Switching on the internet is like opening a sluice-gate of senselessness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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