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Senseless vs Tenseless - What's the difference?

senseless | tenseless |

As adjectives the difference between senseless and tenseless

is that senseless is bereft of feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation; unconscious; insensible while tenseless is lacking grammatical tense.

senseless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Bereft of feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation; unconscious; insensible.
    • The blow to his head rendered him senseless , he didn't awaken until he was in the ambulance.
  • Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense; pointless; meaningless.
    • What a senseless waste of money.
  • Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement; unreasonable; unwise; stupid.
    • He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.

    Related terms

    * sense * senseful * senselessly * senselessness

    References

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    tenseless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking grammatical tense
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, date=August 27, Kevin Dewan, Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9115-0, volume=69, issue=2, pages=
    • , passage=Those who endorse the A-theory of time, for example, often attempt to show that tense is ineliminable, i. e. , it is impossible to adequately paraphrase tensed sentences into tenseless ones. }}