Insensibility

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Lack of physical sensibility; the state of being insensible to physical impressions; absence of feeling or sensation.
  • noun. Lack of moral sensibility, or the power to be moved or affected; lack of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion.
  • noun. Synonyms Indifference, Insensibility, Impassibility, etc. See apathy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of being insensible; lack of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness.
  • noun. Lack of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The property of being insensible.
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  • noun. devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
  • noun. a lack of sensibility
  • Word Usage
    "But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy."
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