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insensibleness

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in·sen·si·ble   (ĭn-sěn'sə-bəl)   
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.

  1. 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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