Noun: unsense
Sample Sentences
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It is a matter of pressing to the threshold of sense, where unsense is simply the nascent becoming-sense of sense […] [1990, Pat Bigelow, The conning, the cunning of being:]
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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” […] [2009, Nancy Diekelmann, John Diekelmann, Schooling Learning Teaching:]
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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 […] [2010, Jones Irwin, Derrida and the Writing of the Body:]
Nouns inflected like unsense
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Germanic *un-
5. Proto-West Germanic *un-
6. Old English un-
7. Middle English un-
8. English un-
9. Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
10. Proto-Italic *sentiō
11. Latin sentiō
12. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
13. Proto-Italic *-tus
14. Latin -tus
15. Latin sēnsusbor.
16. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
17. Frankish *sinnbor.
18. Vulgar Latin *sennus
19. Old French sensbor.
20. Middle English sense
21. English sense
22. English unsense
23. From un- (“absence of, lack of”) + sense.
Verbs referencing "unsense"
English Nouns
nonsense.