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Meaning of unsense | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.

uncountable

Examples

“It is a matter of pressing to the threshold of sense, where unsense is simply the nascent becoming-sense of sense […]”
“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” […]”
“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 […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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