Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wanting a distinct sense or meaning; without a certain signification.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not sensed or felt.
- adj. archaic Lacking a distinct meaning; having no certain signification.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification.
Etymologies
- 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.”
“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.”
“But these are capable of being sensed, provided the knower is appropriately situated; though unsensed they are part of the world of”
“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.”
“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.”
“Unseen but not unsensed, and Cerryl shivered in the rain, and not from the cold ... or the weather.”
“And if the computer tracks an animal into an unsensed zone, it'll remember, and look for the animal to come out again.”
“Consciousness, the superhuman consciousness of before, returned almost unsensed, unrecognized till awareness brought surprise.”
“The first level, nearly devoid of personality, of everything that the younger man craved with a longing that went unacknowledged, almost unsensed.”
“The crying of the infant reached you, perhaps, as bursts of energy from the invisible distance, nearly unsensed, often ignored.”
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Adjectival Arcana
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