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in⋅sen⋅si⋅ble

   [in-sen-suh-buhl]
–adjective
1. incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
2. without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
3. unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
4. not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible: insensible transitions.
5. unresponsive in feeling.
6. not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of any feeling.
7. not endowed with feeling or sensation, as matter; inanimate.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L insēnsibilis. See in- 3 , sensible
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in·sen·si·ble     (ĭn-sěn'sə-bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
    1. Imperceptible; inappreciable: an insensible change in temperature.
    2. Very small or gradual: insensible movement.
    3. Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious: lay insensible where he had fallen.
    4. Not invested with sensation; inanimate: insensible clay.
    5. Devoid of physical sensation or the power to react, as to pain or cold; numb.
    6. Unaware; unmindful: I am not insensible of your concern.
    7. Not emotionally responsive; indifferent: insensible to criticism.
    1. Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious: lay insensible where he had fallen.
    2. Not invested with sensation; inanimate: insensible clay.
    3. Devoid of physical sensation or the power to react, as to pain or cold; numb.
    4. Unaware; unmindful: I am not insensible of your concern.
    5. Not emotionally responsive; indifferent: insensible to criticism.
    1. Unaware; unmindful: I am not insensible of your concern.
    2. Not emotionally responsive; indifferent: insensible to criticism.
  4. Lacking meaning; unintelligible.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īnsēnsibilis, imperceivable : in-, not; see in-1 + sēnsibilis, perceptible; see sensible.]

in·sen'si·bil'i·ty, in·sen'si·ble·ness n., in·sen'si·bly adv.
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insensibility

noun
1. a lack of sensibility [ant: aesthesia] 
2. devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness] 

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Insensibility

In*sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insensibilit['e].]

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.

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