Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wanting a distinct sense or meaning; without a certain signification.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification.
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- adjective Not
sensed orfelt . - adjective archaic Lacking a distinct
meaning ; having no certainsignification .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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"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."
Cattle Town 2010
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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 Wilson, Fred 2007
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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 Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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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 Crane, Tim 2005
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Unseen but not unsensed, and Cerryl shivered in the rain, and not from the cold ... or the weather.
The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998
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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 Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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Consciousness, the superhuman consciousness of before, returned almost unsensed, unrecognized till awareness brought surprise.
True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984
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The first level, nearly devoid of personality, of everything that the younger man craved with a longing that went unacknowledged, almost unsensed.
YESTERDAY’S SON A.C. CRISPIN 1983
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The first level, nearly devoid of personality, of everything that the younger man craved with a longing that went unacknowledged, almost unsensed.
YESTERDAY’S SON A.C. CRISPIN 1983
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