Word Meanings - INSENSIBILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn.
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1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn. -- Dullness; numbness; unfeelingness; stupidity; torpor; apathy; impassiveness; indifference.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSENSIBILITY)
- Apathy
- Indifference
- insensibility
- insusceptibility
- unconcern
- sluggishness
- hebetude
- Triviality
- unimportance
- insignificance
- coolness
- carelessness
- apathy
- composure
- Numbness
- Hebetude
- callousness
Related words: (words related to INSENSIBILITY)
- UNCONCERNMENT
The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South. - HEBETUDE
Dullness; stupidity. Harvey. - APATHY
Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - INSENSIBILITY
1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn. - COOLNESS
1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession. - TRIVIALITY
1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair. - INSIGNIFICANCE
1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases. 2. Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art. 3. Want - UNCONCERN
Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference. A listless unconcern, Cold, and averting from our neighbor's good. Thomson. - INDIFFERENCE
1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance. 2. Passableness; mediocrity. 3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, - UNCONCERNED
Not concerned; not anxious or solicitous; easy in mind; carelessly secure; indifferent; as, to be unconcerned at what has happened; to be unconcerned about the future. -- Un`con*cern"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`con*cern"ed*ness, n. Happy mortals, unconcerned - CARELESSNESS
The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention. - INSUSCEPTIBILITY
Want of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive. - UNCONCERNING
Not interesting of affecting; insignificant; not belonging to one. Addison. - UNIMPORTANCE
Want of importance; triviality. Johnson. - NUMBNESS
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. - DISCOMPOSURE
1. The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside. 2. Discordance; disagreement of parts. Boyle. - INAPATHY
Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.