Definition of Mindlessness

1. Noun. Total lack of meaning or ideas.


2. Noun. The trait of acting rashly and without prudence.
Exact synonyms: Heedlessness, Rashness
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

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mindlessness

mindful
mindfull
mindfully
mindfulness
mindfulnesses
minding
mindings
mindless
mindlessly
mindlessness (current term)
mindlessnesses
mindlike
mindmap
mindmaps
mindpower
mindpowers
minds
mindscape
mindscapes
mindscrew
mindscrewed
mindscrewing
mindscrews
mindset

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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