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unthinkingness

unthinkingness noun: quality of being unthinking; thoughtlessness.

Noun

unthinkingness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being unthinking; thoughtlessness.
    • He permits him to lord it in many lands
      until the man in his unthinkingness
      forgets that it will ever end for him.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 56
    • She surveys the icebox, the vegetables so small and bright as she sets them to boil, pretending to go about it as her landlady would, with a matter-of-factness and familiarity, an unthinkingness in sprinkling spice, a quiet dignity around the gas-stained stove and always-wet toilet.2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 57

Origin of unthinkingness

From unthinking + -ness.

Questions about unthinkingness

What does unthinkingness mean?
Unthinkingness means quality of being unthinking; thoughtlessness.
What part of speech is unthinkingness?
Unthinkingness is a noun.

Words near unthinkingness in the dictionary

  1. unthinkably
  2. unthinker
  3. unthinkers
  4. unthinking
  5. unthinkingly
  6. unthinkingness
  7. unthinks
  8. unthinned
  9. unthinning
  10. unthirsting
  11. unthirsty

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