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Definition of Mindlessness
1. Noun. Total lack of meaning or ideas.
Generic synonyms: Meaninglessness
Derivative terms: Inane, Mindless, Mindless, Mindless, Mindless, Pointless, Senseless, Vacuous, Vacuous
2. Noun. The trait of acting rashly and without prudence.
Generic synonyms: Imprudence
Specialized synonyms: Lightheadedness
Derivative terms: Heedless, Heedless, Mindless, Mindless, Rash
Definition of Mindlessness
1. Noun. The property of behaving in a mindless manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mindlessness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mindlessness
Literary usage of Mindlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Journal (1901)
"Those people who are suffering from stupor simply, or acute mindlessness, or
acute dementia, who have no painful impressions associated with their state, ..."
2. Japan in a Nutshell by Professor Solomon (1997)
"The mindlessness of Zen! The samurai had to cultivate the same blankness ...
In each case he simply went about his daily business, with a cool mindlessness. ..."
3. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (1894)
"Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive
consciousness, — the material , mindlessness, which forms no link between matter ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"I noted the faces of the men : they were coarse, and in some cases almost inhuman
for mindlessness ; but there was in their reverent manner ..."
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