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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
Max Beckmann

Meaning of "senselessness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SENSELESSNESS

senselessness  [ˈsɛnslɪsnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SENSELESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Senselessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SENSELESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Senselessness

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.

Definition of senselessness in the English dictionary

The first definition of senselessness in the dictionary is the condition of having no meaning or purpose. Other definition of senselessness is the state of lacking good judgment. Senselessness is also the state of being unconscious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SENSELESSNESS


aimlessness
ˈeɪmlɪsnɪs
artlessness
ˈɑːtlɪsnɪs
childlessness
ˈtʃaɪldlɪsnɪs
faithlessness
ˈfeɪθlɪsnɪs
fearlessness
ˈfɪəlɪsnɪs
fecklessness
ˈfɛklɪsnɪs
groundlessness
ˈɡraʊndlɪsnɪs
heartlessness
ˈhɑːtlɪsnɪs
homelessness
ˈhəʊmlɪsnɪs
lifelessness
ˈlaɪflɪsnɪs
nervelessness
ˈnɜːvlɪsnɪs
noiselessness
ˈnɔɪzlɪsnɪs
pulselessness
ˈpʌlslɪsnɪs
relentlessness
rɪˈlɛntlɪsnɪs
remorselessness
rɪˈmɔːslɪsnɪs
shamelessness
ˈʃeɪmlɪsnɪs
successlessness
səkˈseslɪsnɪs
tactlessness
ˈtæktlɪsnɪs
tastelessness
ˈteɪstlɪsnɪs
worthlessness
ˈwɜːθlɪsnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SENSELESSNESS

sense
sense datum
sense of direction
sense of humour
sense of occasion
sense organ
senseful
sensei
senseless
senselessly
senses
sensi
sensibilia
sensibilities
sensibility
sensible
sensible horizon
sensible note
sensibleness
sensibly

WORDS THAT END LIKE SENSELESSNESS

biliousness
business
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
heedlessness
helplessness
hilariousness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
statelessness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of senselessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «senselessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SENSELESSNESS

Find out the translation of senselessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of senselessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «senselessness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无意义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sinsentido
570 millions of speakers

English

senselessness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेखुदी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللاعقلانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бессмысленность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

senselessness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

senselessness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

absurdité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bodoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sinnlosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無意味さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무의미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Senselessness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô nghĩa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படிவத்தின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्खपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

senselessness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

insensatezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezsens
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безглуздість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lipsa de sens
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναισθησία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sinneloosheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

senselessness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uforstand
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of senselessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SENSELESSNESS»

The term «senselessness» is regularly used and occupies the 103.104 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SENSELESSNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about senselessness

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3 QUOTES WITH «SENSELESSNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word senselessness.
1
Max Beckmann
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
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Karl Shapiro
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
3
Steven Weber
We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SENSELESSNESS»

Discover the use of senselessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to senselessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Senselessness
Acclaimed Salvadoran author Moya's astounding debut in English has a peculiarly lighthearted, and in fact comic air even as it is tormented by the violence of history ("El Pais").
Horacio Castellanos Moya, 2008
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The entire works of John Bunyan, ed. by H. Stebbing
If thou findest thyself senseless in some sad measure, yet thou canst not complain of that senselessness, but by being sensible there is a sense of senselessness. According to thy sense, then, that thou hast of the need of anything, so pray, ...
John Bunyan, Henry Stebbing, 1859
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The Spirit of Prayer
If thou findest thyself senseless in some sad measure, yet thou canst not complain of that senselessness, but by being sensible. There is a sense of senselessness. According to thy sense, then, that thou hast of the need of an^ thing, so pray, ...
John Bunyan, 1850
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The Genealogy of Morals
... these euphemisms: another is “les nostalgies de la croix").7 What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering; such a senselessness, however, existed neither in Christianity, ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1913
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Tyrant Memory
The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who came to power in El Salvador in 1932.
Horacio Castellanos Moya, 2011
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The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the ...
And on the other hand, it was the very same senselessness that led to a growing intolerance to the pain of dying and a wish to eradicate such pain, even at the price of shortening life. Thus the senselessness of dying led both to the scientific  ...
Shai J. Lavi, 2009
7
The Vietnam War and Postmodernity
There is a whole literature on the senselessness of World War I, of which All Quiet on the Western Front is only one example, and both the Korean and Vietnam War "made no sense" to many participants and sectors of the public." In what ...
Michael Bibby, 2000
8
Love Yourself And It Doesn't Matter Who You Marry
senselessness. of. victory. We have hardly pulled ourselves up to the next rung of the career ladder when the next challenge is waiting for us. We have barely completed a marathon before we want to improve our record. As soon as the latest ...
Eva-Maria Zurhorst, 2007
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Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas
CONCLUSION. THE. SENSELESSNESS. OF. ENDING. I know the delirium of mourning. When the dead one with all its gigantic body invades the heart of the one left alive, a savage explosion drives the living to obliterate all limits, in a ...
Catherine Russell, 1995
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The Thing and Art: Two Essays on the Ontotopy of the Work of Art
Consequently, being is senseless not accidentally, but essentially, ontotopically. Traditional philosophy has expressed such an ontotopical state of the senselessness of the being of beyond-human things by the notion of substance. The thing ...
Arvydas Šliogeris, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SENSELESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term senselessness is used in the context of the following news items.
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After sustained progress, New Orleans' murder rate is hurtling back …
What the public does not see is the utter senselessness of a person needlessly dead on an autopsy table,” Rouse said. “The public does not see the ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
2
HBO's 'Requiem for the Dead': A deep wallow in gun-related …
It all comes at the viewer in coherent but inexorable flood of senselessness. Because there is no anti-gun lecture in the film, there is also no attempt at ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
3
Why White Terrorists Attack Black Churches
In the immediate aftermath of tragedies on this scale, talk quickly turns to the senselessness of violence. President Obama expressed his “deep sorrow over the ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
4
The senselessness of (most) Pakistani fashion
Fashion makes sense if it has general applicability. What is it worth if it has no mass appeal or doesn't influence the way ordinary men and women dress? Do the ... «The News International, May 15»
5
Leader talks of 'senselessness' of crash at Germanwings memorial
"Maybe that is what appalled us so much, the senselessness of what took place." The steps to the altar were covered with 150 lighted candles, one for each ... «CTV News, Apr 15»
6
The Senselessness of Joining in a Sunni vs. Shiite War
What sense does this make? The U.S. is abetting Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan. Morocco and Sudan—all ruled ... «CounterPunch, Mar 15»
7
Senselessness in censorship
Film producer Pahlaj Nihalani, a self-confessed Narendra Modi fan, is in the news again after a list of 28 cuss words devised by the Central Board of Film ... «The Hindu, Feb 15»
8
Believe Something Already: Emergent, LaBeouf, & the Growing …
Believe Something Already: Emergent, LaBeouf, & the Growing Senselessness of .... to those increasingly looking for sense in the wreckage of senselessness. «Patheos, Oct 14»
9
America's senselessness over guns keeps claiming more victims
Any death caused by a gun is a tragedy. The shooting on Monday that took the life of firing range instructor Charles Vacca certainly fits. The accidental death ... «Kansas City Star, Aug 14»
10
Inside trurodaily.com: 'The cruelty and total senselessness of this act …
“The cruelty and total senselessness of this act is totally disgusting. Wrangler was such a sweet, loving cat who was so loved by this woman and her two kids. «Truro Daily News, Jul 14»

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