What does insensibility mean?
Definitions for insensibility
in·sen·si·bil·i·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
insensibilitynoun
a lack of sensibility
unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibilitynoun
devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
Wiktionary
insensibilitynoun
The property of being insensible.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Insensibilitynoun
Etymology: insensibilité, French, from insensible.
Insensibility of slow motions may be thus accounted for: motion cannot be perceived without perception of the parts of space which it left, and those which it next acquires. Joseph Glanvill.
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insensibility
Insensibility refers to a lack of consciousness or awareness, either physically (as in inability to feel due to numbness) or emotionally (as in lack of empathy or understanding). It can also refer to a condition where one cannot respond to external stimuli or perceive sensory information.
Webster Dictionary
Insensibilitynoun
the state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates
Insensibilitynoun
want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity
Wikidata
Insensibility
Insensibility is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War which explores the effect of warfare on soldiers, and the long and short term psychological effects which it has on them. The poem's title refers to the fact that the soldiers have lost the ability to feel due to the horrors which they faced on the Western Front during the First World War.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of insensibility in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of insensibility in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of insensibility in a Sentence
The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand:
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
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