Unsense
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unsense is a noun meaning Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
Meaning
Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To remove or deprive of the senses; cause to be insensible.
Example Sentences
It is a matter of pressing to the threshold of sense, where unsense is simply the nascent becoming-sense of sense […]
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” […]
Mary-Ann Caws seeks to explicate the term as follows: 'forcene/for-sene - unsensed by genius but not senseless; for unsense has in it the peculiar echo of an incense. . .something is consecrated here. . .sense is not simply lost... it is gravely undone […]
Word Forms
- unsenses
- unsensing
- unsensed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include senselessness, nonsense, non-sense, unmeaning, nonsence, nonsanity.
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