a. [f. FEELING vbl. sb. + -LESS.] Without feeling; devoid of feeling.
1821. Blackw. Mag., VIII., March, 622.
| When neither age nor sex the heart could pierce, | |
| Of savage Windram, feelingless and fierce. |
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. x. § 2. 303. For some time his [Turner’s] work is, apparently, feelingless, so patient and mechanical are the first essays.
1876. H. Spencer, Princ. Sociol. (1877), I. 479. Feelingless units and units which monopolize feeling.
Hence Feelinglessly adv.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. xii. § 15. Simply bad writing may almost always, as above noticed, be known by its adoption of these fanciful metaphorical expressions, as a sort of current coin; yet there is even a worse, at least a more harmful, condition of writing than this, in which such expressions are not ignorantly and feelinglessly caught up, but, by some master, skilful in handling, yet insincere, deliberately wrought out with chill and studied fancy; as if we should try to make an old lava stream look red-hot again, by covering it with dead leaves, or white-hot, with hoar-frost.
