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unsense

unsense noun: lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.

Noun

unsense (uncountable)

  1. Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
    • It is a matter of pressing to the threshold of sense, where unsense is simply the nascent becoming-sense of sense […]1990, Pat Bigelow, The conning, the cunning of being
    • The capacity to receive and be disposed to (be affected by) sense turns on how a given particular time calls for what makes “unsense, unsense and no-longer-sense” […]2009, Nancy Diekelmann, John Diekelmann, Schooling Learning Teaching

Verb

unsense (third-person singular simple present unsenses, present participle unsensing, simple past and past participle unsensed)

  1. (transitive) To remove or deprive of the senses; cause to be insensible.

Forms of unsense

third-person singular presentunsenses
present participleunsensing
past participleunsensed
pastunsensed

Origin of unsense

From un- (“absence of, lack of”) + sense.

From un- (“reversal, removal”) + sense. Distant cognate with German entsinnen (“to reflect”).

Questions about unsense

What does unsense mean?
Unsense means lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
What part of speech is unsense?
Unsense can be a noun or a verb.

Words near unsense in the dictionary

  1. unsenescent
  2. unsensational
  3. unsensationalised
  4. unsensationalist
  5. unsensationalized
  6. unsense
  7. unsensed
  8. unsenses
  9. unsensibility
  10. unsensible
  11. unsensibleness

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