Crossword clues for senselessness
senselessness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless
things.
--Shak.
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
--Shak.
The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
--Rowe.
They were a senseless, stupid race.
--Swift.
They would repent this their senseless perverseness
when it would be too late.
--Clarendon.
[1913 Webster] -- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness,
n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being senseless; unsense.
WordNet
n. total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: inanity, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness]
Wikipedia
Senselessness is the English translation of the 2004 novel Insensatez, originally written in Spanish by Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya. Senselessness was translated by Katherine Silver and published in 2008 by New Directions Publishers. The translation was short-listed for the 2009 Best Translated Book Award.
Usage examples of "senselessness".
On the deck immediately above, Hartley and two seamen, belayed with ropes, had made a brief, hopelessly gallant attempt to plug the gaping holes: all three, battered into near senselessness by the great waves pounding the fo'c'sle, were dragged off within a minute.
Hands trembling, he almost lost his hold on Embra's suddenly heavier body—as she collapsed with a gasp, head lolling in senselessness.