senseless
adjective
destitute or deprived of sensation; unconscious.
senselessness
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a word derived from
senseless.
Example Sentences
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“Mother Mary” is as hair-raising as it is eyebrow-raising, all spectral senselessness until, out of nowhere, the eeriness gives way to a startling profundity as the film explores remorse with biblical repercussions.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Maybe if French philosopher Albert Camus had a TikTok, he could explain it, given how well he understood repetitive cycles of senselessness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Four Black men find themselves in a waiting room in the afterlife, struggling to make sense of the senselessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
Yet for the reader, the book is clearly a cautionary tale about the cost of self-deception and the senselessness of shrinking from love.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
