senselessness

noun

1
as in insanity
lack of good sense or judgment who had the senselessness to mix these dangerous chemicals together?

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2
as in stupidity
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense babbled some senselessness about being eaten by horses

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3
as in stupidness
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind the senselessness of his decision to drive after drinking so much

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Recent Examples of senselessness Some things are too painful for words, and Crystal knows that sense cannot be made from senselessness. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 There is, of course, a strong current of senselessness running through the film. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025 In 2018, Brennan’s sister spoke to WMUR about the senselessness of the murder. — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025 This just illistrates a complete senselessness. — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senselessness
  1. insanity
  2. stupidity
  3. stupidness
  4. madness
  5. nonsense
  6. thickness
  7. simplicity
  8. silliness
Noun
  • The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over.
    — Ryan Ottignon, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Bennett asked the jury to find Hinton not guilty by reason of insanity.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of insanity
Noun
  • The power delivery remains impressively smooth, but there is a lot more of it, and the speed builds with the effortless stupidity electric motors are so good at delivering.
    — Kevin Fanady, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Learning that countless more people will lose their lives on account of his neglect, greed, and stupidity, he is pressed, reluctantly, into a most self-serving mode of damage control.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of stupidity
Noun
  • In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.
    — Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Definition of stupidness
Noun
  • This kind of excision, this near total erasure of the Black voice, can turn one toward madness, certainly toward bitterness.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • From the Kahn Brothers comes a brainy comedy about fathers and sons, science and madness, and second chances.
    — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of madness
Noun
  • But most of this energy price escalation stems from Joe Biden’s anti-fossil-energy, Green New Deal nonsense.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The bloc also roped Canada into this nonsense, and recently asked Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to dial the generosity up a notch, according to Politico.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of nonsense
Noun
  • The trunk thickness likely puts these trees well over a century old.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Repeating this process thousands of times creates a dense, web-like architecture of intersecting support beams in wildly varying sizes and thicknesses.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of thickness
Noun
  • One can treat it as an indelible feature of human psychology, an unavoidable by-product of our appetite for simplicity and affiliation.
    — Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Despite the beery bonhomie and singalong-friendly simplicity of their tunes, the Twisted Teens are grappling with an increasingly complex tangle of contradictions and tensions.
    — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of simplicity
Noun
  • Mandell never let his artistic seriousness stand in the way of his silliness.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Moments of mutual support and understanding, of belly-aching laughter and silliness, of care and deep love.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of silliness

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“Senselessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senselessness. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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