Numbness
['nʌmnəs] or ['nʌmnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction.
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Definition
(n.) The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Torpor, insensibility, deadness, paralysis, palsy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hebetude, callousness, insensibility
ANT:acuteness, sensibility, liveliness, sensitiveness
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you feel a numbness creeping over you, in your dreams, is a sign of illness, and disquieting conditions
Editor: Robert
Examples
- It's the numbness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was dead in my head with a numbness and all I could do was cry. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of atrophy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Vern