insensible

[ in-sen-suh-buhl ]

/ ɪnˈsɛn sə bəl /

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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: insensible transitions.

unresponsive in feeling.

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

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

OTHER WORDS FOR insensible

5, 6 apathetic, unfeeling, indifferent, cool; dull, passionless, emotionless, torpid.

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Origin of insensible

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

synonym study for insensible

See indifference.

OTHER WORDS FROM insensible

in·sen·si·bly, adverbin·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.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
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.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket|Honore de Balzac

British Dictionary definitions for insensible

insensible

/ (ɪnˈsɛnsəbəl) /

adjective

lacking sensation or consciousness

(foll by of or to) unaware (of) or indifferent (to)insensible to suffering

thoughtless or callous

a less common word for imperceptible

Derived forms of insensible

insensibility or insensibleness, nouninsensibly, adverb

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