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Insensibility

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Noun

1. insensibility

a lack of sensibility

2. callosity, callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness

devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Insensibility

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adjective
1. 
lacking sensation or consciousness
2. (foll by of or to)
unaware (of) or indifferent (to)
insensible to suffering
3. 
thoughtless or callous
4.  a less common word for imperceptible

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Insensibility

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adjective
1. 
lacking sensation; not having the power to perceive with the senses
2. 
having lost sensation; unconscious
3. 
not recognizing or realizing; unaware; indifferent
4. 
not responsive emotionally; without feeling
5. 
so small, slight, or gradual as to be virtually imperceptible
6. 
not intelligible; without meaning
now chiefly in legal use
7.  Obsolete
senseless; stupid

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Insensibility

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adj.
1.
a. Imperceptible; inappreciable: an insensible change in temperature.
b. Very small or gradual: insensible movement.
2.
a. Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious: lay insensible where he had fallen.
b. Not invested with sensation; inanimate: insensible clay.
c. Devoid of physical sensation or the power to react, as to pain or cold; numb.
3.
a. Unaware; unmindful: I am not insensible of your concern.
b. Not emotionally responsive; indifferent: insensible to criticism.
4. Lacking meaning; unintelligible.

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