Noun
The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.
Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.
Source: Webster's dictionarySuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle
It argues an insensibility. Charles Lamb
The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. Blaise Pascal
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness. Jane Austen
I was humiliated for them, for their apparent insensibility. But I was mistaken in my anxiety - their wish to help, to show her their concern, was real, their feelings were true and lasting, no matter how awkwardly expressed; their love and tenderness and wish to help were from the heart. Katherine Anne Porter