What's the difference between mindless and senseless?

Mindless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
  • (a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
  • (2) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” Coates agreed with Wenger that it is best to turn a deaf ear to those mindless enough to sing that sort of song.
  • (3) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
  • (4) "Not one person has given any positive to his tenure of management, just kept mindlessly claiming he needs time.
  • (5) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (6) The increasingly frequent murder of Nato trainers by the Afghans they are supposed to mentor has done as much to eradicate trust in the relationship between the Kabul government and its western backers as the sight of US marines videoed while urinating on the corpses of insurgents, or the mindless decision to burn Qur'ans at a US military base.
  • (7) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
  • (8) The architect of the RBCT called the new cull "mindless".
  • (9) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (10) Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless," he wrote.
  • (11) This article describes a detailed model of how such "mindless" processes might lead to intelligent choices of strategies in one common situation: that in which people need to choose between stating a retrieved answer and using a backup strategy.
  • (12) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
  • (13) It was hypothesized that as overlearning leads to "mindlessness," the individual components of a task become relatively inaccessible to consciousness and therefore unavailable to serve as evidence of task competence.
  • (14) We are about to take this country backwards in droves through the mindless ideological bent of the Coalition .
  • (15) And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence," he said.
  • (16) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
  • (17) Alex Song’s mindless red card near the end of the first half certainly made their task an easier one, but Croatia put the setback of their opening defeat to Brazil behind them with clinical ease.
  • (18) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
  • (19) "We are not on a mindless hunt for unique users," said Bailey.
  • (20) Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas are saturated with mindless terrorists.

Senseless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence."
  • (2) But they need to do all they can to prevent the senseless violence and killing."
  • (3) Nobody can offer, let alone embrace, any rationale for the Newtown assault: it was random, indiscriminate, senseless and deliberate slaughter of innocents.
  • (4) The infant's rights to life without constant pain are also violated by the senseless prolongation of his life and the promotion of wrongful life through the excessive use of modern technology.
  • (5) The promoters added: “We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless violence.
  • (6) "It represents senseless acts of violence against trans and queer bodies beyond the historical lens," says Cassils.
  • (7) Security around the airport was tightened and an investigation into the "terrible, senseless crime" was under way, said Boris Rhein, interior minister for the state of Hesse.
  • (8) Occurring in approximately 2% of adults, OCD consists of recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) or senseless repetitive actions (compulsions).
  • (9) The victims are frequently unidentified and the motive unclear, but the senselessness was all too evident.
  • (10) The frequency of senseless gun-related deaths in America continues unabated.
  • (11) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
  • (12) On Twitter , Wade lamented what he called another “act of senseless gun violence” which meant “4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON”.
  • (13) The Department for Education has appointed one of its "brokers" to find the school a sponsor, and a local action group is fighting against a plan that scores of local people think is senseless.
  • (14) These senseless murders may amount to war crimes and the perpetrators must be held accountable,” Nicholas Haysom, the UN’s special representative for Afghanistan , said in a statement on Wednesday.
  • (15) The defense secretary, Ash Carter, said in a statement: “My thoughts and prayers – along with those of the men and women of the US Department of Defense – are with the families of those killed in this senseless act of violence and with all those touched by this tragedy.” The Associated Press contributed to this report • This article was amended on 17 July 2015 to correct the spelling of Hixson, Tennessee.
  • (16) If national politics has been breaking your heart or boring you senseless I suggest you talk yourself out of your alienation and tune in for the next couple of weeks, because stuff – it’s going to get interesting.
  • (17) Most Midwestern areas have small cities and towns, and most of our trauma results from accidents, not deliberate, senseless human acts.
  • (18) The Spanish full-back is prone to rashness but the two-footed lunge from behind on Naismith was senseless even by his standards.
  • (19) The brief flurry of liberal street protest in 2011 and 2012 was ruthlessly snuffed out by the Kremlin, and many have suggested that, far from a liberal revolution, the most likely revolt in Russia is the “senseless and merciless” Russian uprising of which Alexander Pushkin wrote.
  • (20) An attempt was made to enhance (by means of instruction) the verbal labeling and recall of schematic pictures which uninformed Ss tended to perceive as senseless.