Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsense

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-sense
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.

Uncountable

verb

To remove or deprive of the senses; cause to be insensible.

Transitive verb

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 […]"

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English unsense From un- (“absence of, lack of”) + sense.

Usage

Inflected Forms

unsenses (present, singular) unsensing (participle, present) unsensed (participle, past) unsensed (past)

Questions

What does unsense mean?: Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
Where does unsense come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English unsense From un- (“absence of, lack of”) + sense.

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