senselessness

Examples

• All

• Unconsciously, she shook her head at the senselessness of Duncan Andrews' taking drugs.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Their work was more secure; there was a higher level of employment; but they were more and more aware of the frustration and alienation that they were experiencing at the workplace -- a senselessness about their work, a feeling that their work had no meaning and purpose.

  Academic text (1994)

• Leaving it off screen seemed to highlight the senselessness of death.

  Blog text (7)

• There is no sense to this senselessness, only probability.

  Blog text (11)

• These are not sensible policy decisions, but the senselessness of them comes from making the system dependent on these swing states.

• I adopt this second approach, believing the very senselessness of the words to be significant, but draw a different conclusion.

  Academic text (2016)

• The 1975 version was about maintaining an identity in a dystopian future and the senselessness of violence.

  Blog text (14)

• Their goal, admirable in most views, was to alert the American public to the senselessness of the war and to hasten its end.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Still, I suddenly realized the senselessness of it—you wouldn't have answered me anyway.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I feel that both choices are rudimentary and pitiful, and though I know the senselessness of advocating any given path to other novelists, I am still inclined to say, leave both extremes.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

E

emptiness

vssenselessness

58 5.3

A feeling that life has no meaning

speaks of lack of sense or reason rather than emotional feeling of futility

N

nonsense

vssenselessness

5 3.3

Not having any clear meaning

applies more broadly to lacking sense or reason, not only unintelligible speech

M

meaninglessness

vssenselessness

4 7.6

A feeling that what you do has no purpose or value

emphasizes lack of sense or reason rather than explicit value

I

inanity

vssenselessness

4 9.5

A state of being very silly and without any real meaning

expresses lack of sense or reason rather than simply being silly

P

pointlessness

vssenselessness

2 6.2

A state when something has no purpose or use

expresses lack of sense or reason rather than emphasis on usefulness

M

mindlessness

vssenselessness

2 7.3

A lack of thought or care in what someone does

refers to lack of sense or reason rather than absence of thought or attention

A

aimlessness

vssenselessness

1 7.0

A lack of clear purpose or direction

is broader, implying lack of sense or reason rather than only direction

P

purposelessness

vssenselessness

1 8.7

The feeling of having no clear goal or direction

covers lack of sense or reason beyond just missing a definite aim

V

vacuity

vssenselessness

1 9.2

A lack of ideas or meaning

emphasizes absence of sense or reason, not only empty ideas or content

V

vacuousness

vssenselessness

• Formal

1 9.2

A state of being empty of meaning and thought

covers lack of sense or reason beyond empty or unintelligent impression

U

unsense

vssenselessness

9.9

An idea or statement that has no meaning

expresses the same lack of sense but adds reason and purpose too

O

objectlessness

vssenselessness

9.9

A feeling of having no clear purpose or aim

focuses on lack of sense or reason beyond merely missing a specific aim

N

nonsensicality

vssenselessness

8.6

A state when something has no clear meaning

focuses on lack of sense or reason not only odd or absurd form

Antonyms

S

significance

194 3.8

How important something is or how much it matters

M

meaningfulness

1 4.9

Something that has a clear purpose or value

How Senseless

absurdity

54 6.1

meaninglessness

4 7.6

senselessness

2 7.0

irrationality

12 6.2

unreasonableness

1 6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology