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unthinkingness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unthinking + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Quality of being unthinking; thoughtlessness.
    • He permits him to lord it in many lands until the man in his unthinkingness forgets that it will ever end for him. 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 56:
    • She surveys the icebox, the vegetables so small and bright as she sets them to boil, pretending to go about it as her landlady would, with a matter-of-factness and familiarity, an unthinkingness in sprinkling spice, a quiet dignity around the gas-stained stove and always-wet toilet. 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 57:

Translations (4)

pl bezrefleksyjność (Translations) · pl bezrozumność (Translations) · pl bezrozum (Translations) · pl bezmyślność (Translations)