Insensibility
[in,sensə'biləti]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.
(n.) Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.
Typist: Manfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Torpor, lethargy, want of sensibility.[2]. Apathy, unfeelingness, indifference.[3]. Dulness, stupidity.
Edited by Anselm
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SENSIBILITY]
Typist: Marion
Examples
- Mr. Vholes, explains the client, somewhat abashed, I had no intention to accuse you of insensibility. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A little while afterwards, when he appeared to be sinking into insensibility, she said, in a calm loving voice: 'Eugene, my dear husband! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Why am I not a partner of your insensibility, a sharer in your calm! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You have, undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The lady, against whom naturally the strongest suspicion rested, was removed to her room, still in a state of insensibility. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To this poor sufferer insensibility is next to heaven. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Very well, said he, and how do you know that the spectacle of her grand insensibility might not with me be the strongest stimulus to homage? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He awoke from a broken slumber, under the confused impressions which are naturally attendant on the recovery from a state of insensibility. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The Nineteenth Century’s greatest gift in this field has been an?sthesia, or insensibility to pain. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Lydgate was too hasty in attributing insensibility to her; after her own fashion, she was sensitive enough, and took lasting impressions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checker: Velma