Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Imperceptible; inappreciable.
- adjective Very small or gradual.
- adjective Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious.
- adjective Not invested with sensation; inanimate.
- adjective Devoid of physical sensation or the power to react, as to pain or cold; numb.
- adjective Unaware; unmindful.
- adjective Not emotionally responsive; indifferent.
- adjective Lacking meaning; unintelligible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible; inappreciable.
- Not sensible to the mind; not consciously apprehended or appreciated; unconscious.
- Without the power of feeling or sensation; without corporeal sensibility.
- Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling or tenderness: as, to be insensible to the sufferings of others.
- Void of sense or meaning; meaningless.
- Dull, torpid, senseless, unconscious, unfeeling, unsusceptible, indifferent, hard, callous.
- noun One who is lacking in sensibility; a thoroughly apathetic person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility; unconscious.
- adjective Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; ; -- often used with
of orto . - adjective Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual.
- adjective obsolete Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
- adjective Incapable of feeling a specific sensation or emotion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Unable to be perceived by the
senses . - adjective Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- adjective Unable to be understood;
unintelligible . - adjective Lacking sense or intelligence.
- adjective Incapable of mental feeling;
indifferent . - adjective Incapable of emotional feeling;
callous ;apathetic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective barely able to be perceived
- adjective unaware of or indifferent to
- adjective incapable of physical sensation
- adjective unresponsive to stimulation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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-- From these openings, there constantly passes a vapor, forming what we call the insensible perspiration.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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No artery or important blood vessel was severed by any of the wounds inflicted upon him, but he was for a long time insensible from the loss of blood.
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I have other deeds – The Baroness could hear no more; she was carried insensible from the apartment.
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No matter what, there are some times that you reasonable be dressed to explain to everyone that you dire term insensible from everybody but that idiosyncratic person.
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Honorius could remain insensible of the public disgrace, he might perhaps be affected by the personal misfortunes of his generous kinsmen.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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For those are called insensible who are deficient with regard to pleasures of touch.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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I begin to understand it: but I confess that the idea of insensible heat is so new and strange to me, that it requires some time to render it familiar.
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It is the extreme mobility of which man is capable, owing to his peculiar organization, that distinguishes him from other beings that are called insensible or inanimate; the different degrees of this mobility, of which the individuals of his species are susceptible, discriminate them from each other; make that incredible variety, that infinity of difference which is to be found, as well in their corporeal faculties, as in those which are mental or intellectual.
The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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For many people, the Explorer is stigmatic of a kind of insensible, big-gut consumerism — it's not an entirely fair impression, but such is the warp and weave of culture.
The Pioneering SUV Isn't One Anymore Dan Neil 2010
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