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Unsense vs Unsensed - What's the difference?

unsense | unsensed |

As a noun unsense

is lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.

As an adjective unsensed is

not sensed or felt.

unsense

English

Noun

(-)
  • Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.
  • *1990 , Pat Bigelow, The conning, the cunning of being :
    • It is a matter of pressing to the threshold of sense, where unsense is simply the nascent becoming-sense of sense [...]
  • *2009 , Nancy Diekelmann, John Diekelmann, Schooling Learning Teaching :
    • The capacity to receive and be disposed to (be affected by) sense turns on how a given particular time calls for what makes “unsense', ' unsense and no-longer-sense” [...]
  • *2010 , Jones Irwin, Derrida and the Writing of the Body :
    • Mary-Ann Caws seeks to explicate the term as follows: 'forcene/for-sene - unsensed by genius but not senseless; for unsense has in it the peculiar echo of an incense. . .something is consecrated here. . .sense is not simply lost... it is gravely undone [...]

    unsensed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not sensed or felt.
  • (archaic) Lacking a distinct meaning; having no certain signification.