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- Dictionaryinsensibility/ɪnˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti/
noun
- 1. unconsciousness: "he drank until he was in a state of total insensibility"
- 2. lack of awareness or concern; indifference: "your insensibility to the extreme importance of the mission we are on"
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INSENSIBILITY definition: 1. the state of being unconscious: 2. the fact of not caring about something or being unwilling or…. Learn more.
1. : incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as. a. : lacking sensory perception or ability to react. insensible to pain. b. : unconscious. knocked insensible by a sudden blow. c. : not endowed with life or spirit : insentient. insensible earth. 2. a. : unaware. insensible of their danger. b.
the state of being unconscious: She lay in a state of insensibility until ten o'clock, when she took her last breath. He was beaten into insensibility and then dropped in the canal. the fact of not caring about something or being unwilling or unable to react to it:
Definition of insensibility noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to not care about something or be unwilling to react to it: I think he's largely insensible to other people's distress. See more. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Losing consciousness. black. catatonia. concussion. go out like a light idiom. hypnotically. in a drunken stupor. insensibility. knock. light. pass out. senseless. stun. swoon
noun. devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness. synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness. see more. noun. a lack of sensibility. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Insensibility." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/insensibility. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024. Copy citation.
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.
adjective. incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow. without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold. unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness. not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible:
Down in his heart he was wondering at the insensibility of women in the very things in which men give them the greatest reverence.
adjective. incapable of physical sensation. “ insensible to pain” “ insensible earth” synonyms: incognizant, unaware. (often followed by `of') not aware. unconscious. not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead. anaesthetic, anesthetic. characterized by insensibility. asleep, benumbed, numb.
