unsense en · NOUN · etymology 1
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.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
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: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: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: