Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being brainless; lack of sense; stupidity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or condition of being brainless.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

brainless +‎ -ness

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word brainlessness.

Examples

  • I know this kind of brainlessness is only your job, and the stock in trade of political hacks everywhere.

    The Real Meaning Of Rudy Screaming "Bulls#$t" 2009

  • Why do people engage with that kind of brainlessness?

    Think Progress » At least 112. 2006

  • As for women having an infantile essential nature, which desires innocence and vacuity above all other sexual traits, leading to an unparalleled state of happy brainlessness -- gosh, how do you even begin to document that, outside of scripture and tattered Catholic catechism pamphlets?

    Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011

  • Murphy's charge of brainlessness was much closer to the truth.

    Tackling is still nowhere as hard as in the bad old days Paul Wilson 2010

  • As for women having an infantile essential nature, which desires innocence and vacuity above all other sexual traits, leading to an unparalleled state of happy brainlessness -- gosh, how do you even begin to document that, outside of scripture and tattered Catholic catechism pamphlets?

    Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011

  • As for women having an infantile essential nature, which desires innocence and vacuity above all other sexual traits, leading to an unparalleled state of happy brainlessness -- gosh, how do you even begin to document that, outside of scripture and tattered Catholic catechism pamphlets?

    Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011

  • The Tea Party candidate represents the worst species of brazenness, brainlessness, knavery, and hypocrisy since the Know-Nothings of the 1840s and 1850s, a party driven by popular fears that the country would be taken over by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, hostile to Anglo-Saxon values.

    Robert Brustein: Reviling Obama Robert Brustein 2010

  • As for women having an infantile essential nature, which desires innocence and vacuity above all other sexual traits, leading to an unparalleled state of happy brainlessness -- gosh, how do you even begin to document that, outside of scripture and tattered Catholic catechism pamphlets?

    Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011

  • The Tea Party candidate represents the worst species of brazenness, brainlessness, knavery, and hypocrisy since the Know-Nothings of the 1840s and 1850s, a party driven by popular fears that the country would be taken over by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, hostile to Anglo-Saxon values.

    Robert Brustein: Reviling Obama Robert Brustein 2010

  • As for women having an infantile essential nature, which desires innocence and vacuity above all other sexual traits, leading to an unparalleled state of happy brainlessness -- gosh, how do you even begin to document that, outside of scripture and tattered Catholic catechism pamphlets?

    Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.