unthinkingness

English

Etymology

From unthinking +‎ -ness.

Noun

unthinkingness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being unthinking; thoughtlessness.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 56:
      He permits him to lord it in many lands
      until the man in his unthinkingness
      forgets that it will ever end for him.
    • 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 57:
      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.

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