insensible

[ in-sen-suh-buhl ]
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adjective
  1. incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.

  2. without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.

  1. unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.

  2. not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible: insensible transitions.

  3. unresponsive in feeling.

  4. not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of any feeling.

  5. not endowed with feeling or sensation, as matter; inanimate.

Origin of insensible

1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Latin word insēnsibilis. See in-3, sensible

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Other words for insensible

Other words from insensible

  • in·sen·si·bly, adverb
  • in·sen·si·bil·i·ty, noun

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How to use insensible in a sentence

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • But the person he addressed was speechless, and after nature was fairly exhausted, he sank down in utter insensibility.

    Confessions of a Thug | Philip Meadows Taylor
  • Ida did not shed a tear, but her compressed lips and contracted brow said this did not proceed from insensibility.

    Alone | Marion Harland
  • Down in his heart he was wondering at the insensibility of women in the very things in which men give them the greatest reverence.

    The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson
  • Even her fidelity vexed the unfaithful husband, who seemed to bid her do wrong by stigmatizing her virtue as insensibility.

British Dictionary definitions for insensible

insensible

/ (ɪnˈsɛnsəbəl) /


adjective
  1. lacking sensation or consciousness

  2. (foll by of or to) unaware (of) or indifferent (to): insensible to suffering

  1. thoughtless or callous

  2. a less common word for imperceptible

Derived forms of insensible

  • insensibility or insensibleness, noun
  • insensibly, adverb

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