unsense
verbEtymology From un- (“reversal, removal”) + sense. Distant cognate with German entsinnen (“to reflect”).
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To remove or deprive of the senses; cause to be insensible.
unsense
nounEtymology From un- (“absence of, lack of”) + sense.
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Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
- 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:
- 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: