See senselessness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Terms with German translations",
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"text": "November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, \"Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United,\" guardian.co.uk\nThey had contributed heavily to their own downfall, most glaringly with the senselessness of Chris Smalling’s red card, and they should know by now that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are not the kind of opponents to pass up these kind of handouts."
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],
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[
"senseless",
"senseless"
],
[
"unsense",
"unsense"
]
],
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "being senseless",
"word": "sensenceco"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "being senseless",
"word": "mielettömyys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "being senseless",
"word": "järjettömyys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "absurdité"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "imprudence"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sinnlosigkeit"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "being senseless",
"word": "értelmetlenség"
},
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"code": "lv",
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"lang_code": "lv",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bezjēdzība"
},
{
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"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "gv",
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"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "being senseless",
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],
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "bessmýslennostʹ",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бессмы́сленность"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"lang_code": "sa",
"roman": "acitti",
"sense": "being senseless",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "अचित्ति"
}
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