insensible
adjective
incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
insensibility
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a word derived from
insensible.
Example Sentences
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“It is not a sign of insensibility: it is a sign of optimism and at the same time of innocence.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2014
There are lots of little gratuitous shots in there that also reflect an insensibility to parts of reality.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2002
Here stands an enemy who is not intelligent, but instead one who toughly builds a collective of destruction from insensibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1945 he dared to confront the wasting, undramatic and wearying-to-the-marrowbone enemies: insensibility, indifference and malice toward any expression of hope.
From Time Magazine Archive
I stopped and my senses poised themselves on the brink of insensibility, ready to swoop away at the merest nod from me.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
