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• n  total lack of meaning or ideas
• n  the trait of acting rashly and without prudence

• He seethed at the mindlessness and the menace behind the Soviet regime's response to his music.
• The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco is not so much a neighborhood as a state of mindlessness.
• A fully automated house continues to function with mechanical mindlessness long after its inhabitants have been incinerated in a nuclear holocaust.

• inanity
• senselessness
• vacuity
• pointlessness
• heedlessness
• rashness

News & Articles

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• Google's Virtual Assistant Google Now Is Awesome – Here's Why I Never Want To Use It
  It breeds mindlessness.
  June 22, 2013 - Business Insider via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Tacita Dean in Times Online
  In one of the essays that appear in the catalogue, Tacita Dean argues that "it is wrong to relate Twombly's marks to doodling; they come from mindfulness rather than mindlessness".