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SENSELESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does senselessness mean?
• SENSELESSNESS (noun)
The noun SENSELESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. total lack of meaning or ideas
Familiarity information: SENSELESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Total lack of meaning or ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
inanity; mindlessness; pointlessness; senselessness; vacuity
Hypernyms ("senselessness" is a kind of...):
meaninglessness (the quality of having no value or significance)
Derivation:
senseless (serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being)
Context examples
Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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