mindless
adjective
without intelligence; senseless.
mindlessness
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a word derived from
mindless.
Example Sentences
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It’s clear this mindlessness is no longer tenable.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
All our knowledge-seeking will be for naught, because everything we have learned will be forgotten as the universe lapses into utter, irreversible mindlessness.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2021
Some conservative faculty at Yale welcomed Hill as a superior antidote to such civic mindlessness and as the embodiment of an older social discipline and sense of duty on which Yale had been founded.
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
For the collective outrage over the Virginia scandal to be truly meaningful, it should open up a conversation in this community about how racial mindlessness and hostility play out right here, in our own backyard.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
She started to get that sense of mindlessness again.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
