English

Noun

unsense ‎(uncountable)

1. 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 [...]

Etymology 2

From un- ‎(“reversal, removal”) +‎ sense.

Verb

unsense ‎(third-person singular simple present unsenses, present participle unsensing, simple past and past participle unsensed)

1. (transitive) To remove or deprive of one's senses; cause to be insensible