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insensibility

/in-sen-suh-buhl/US // ɪnˈsɛn sə bəl //UK // (ɪnˈsɛnsəbəl) //

无感,无感性,无知觉,无知

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
    • : without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
    • : unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
    • : not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible: insensible transitions.
    • : unresponsive in feeling.
    • : not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of any feeling.
    • : not endowed with feeling or sensation, as matter; inanimate.

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Examples

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • But the person he addressed was speechless, and after nature was fairly exhausted, he sank down in utter insensibility.

  • Ida did not shed a tear, but her compressed lips and contracted brow said this did not proceed from insensibility.

  • Down in his heart he was wondering at the insensibility of women in the very things in which men give them the greatest reverence.

  • Even her fidelity vexed the unfaithful husband, who seemed to bid her do wrong by stigmatizing her virtue as insensibility.