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unthinkingness

noun

Quality of being unthinking; thoughtlessness.

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Meanings

noununthinkingness (uncountable)

uncountableQuality of being unthinking; thoughtlessness.
He permits him to lord it in many lands until the man in his unthinkingness forgets that it will ever end for him.
1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 56
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She surveys the icebox, the vegetables so small and bright as she sets them to boil, pretending to go about it as her landlady would, with a matter-of-factness and familiarity, an unthinkingness in sprinkling spice, a quiet dignity around the gas-stained stove and always-wet toilet.
2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 57

Origin

From unthinking + -ness.

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Translations

Polish bezrozum, bezrozumność

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APA

unthinkingness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unthinkingness

MLA

“unthinkingness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unthinkingness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unthinkingness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unthinkingness.

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