unthinkingnessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈθɪŋkɪŋnᵻs/ (un- prefix1 6.)
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > absence of thought > [noun]
vacuity1593
incogitancy1649
unthinkingnessa1695
incogitativity1722
vacancy1752
unthought1866
a1695 Marquis of Halifax Char. Charles II (1750) 4 In this kind of Indifference or Unthinkingness,..I will suppose he might pass some considerable part of his Youth.
1744 London Mag. 27 Men begin to be convinced that Indolence and Unthinkingness, are the greatest Blessings upon Earth.
1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. v. 229 We shall..never go astray again, in wicked unthinkingness of this great mercy.
1857 W. Bagehot Biogr. Stud. 53 The unfeeling unthinkingness of our Home administration.
a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) xviii. 297 To make a state of unthinkingness desirable for the human mind.
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