insensibility

Noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

unfeelingness hardness indifference apathy numbness dullness torpor callousness callosity deafness coma cruelty paralysis anesthesia trance
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Antonyms

sensibility interest campaign enlightenment prudence heat
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Hypernyms

insensitivity insensitiveness unconsciousness

Hyponyms

dullness

Examples

Suffering 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

Close letter words and terms

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