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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Wanting a distinct sense or meaning; without a certain signification.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Not sensed or felt.
  2. adj. archaic Lacking a distinct meaning; having no certain signification.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification.

Etymologies

  1. un- +‎ sensed (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Since you are now used to the overbearing smell, see if you can now distinguish other, previously unsensed odors, while you're out and about today.”

    Fictionaut: Cattle Town

  • “He felt the Red man's heart beating, its rhythm more commanding within Taleswapper's body than the unsensed beat of his own hot pulse.”

    Fictionaut: He Don't Know Him

  • “But these are capable of being sensed, provided the knower is appropriately situated; though unsensed they are part of the world of”

    John Stuart Mill

  • “The number of purplish flashes and streaks were far less than when he had translated to Tempre a week before, but the looming, yet distant feel of amber-green power remained, like a cliff overhanging all the Tables, held back only by some unseen and unsensed force.”

    Soarer's Choice

  • “Ducasse, in particular, was arguing against Moore's (1903) version of the sense-datum theory which held that sense-data must be capable of existing unsensed.”

    The Problem of Perception

  • “Unseen but not unsensed, and Cerryl shivered in the rain, and not from the cold ... or the weather.”

    The White Order

  • “And if the computer tracks an animal into an unsensed zone, it'll remember, and look for the animal to come out again.”

    Jurassic Park

  • “Consciousness, the superhuman consciousness of before, returned almost unsensed, unrecognized till awareness brought surprise.”

    True Names

  • “The first level, nearly devoid of personality, of everything that the younger man craved with a longing that went unacknowledged, almost unsensed.”

    Simon & Schuster: YESTERDAY’S SON

  • “The crying of the infant reached you, perhaps, as bursts of energy from the invisible distance, nearly unsensed, often ignored.”

    Gravity's Rainbow

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