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.

Additional info about word: 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. -- 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.