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单词 senselessness
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senselessnessn.

Brit. /ˈsɛnsləsnɛs/, U.S. /ˈsɛnsləsnɛs/
Forms: see senseless adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: senseless adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < senseless adj. + -ness suffix.
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.
b. Lack of awareness or consciousness of something. Obsolete.
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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