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insensibility en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌɪn.sɛn.sɪˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/

Etymology

From Old French insensibilité, from Late Latin insensibilitas.

Meanings

1. The property of being insensible.
   • What a deal of grief, care, and other harmful excitement does a healthy dulness and cheerful insensibility avoid! 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
   • When I recovered I found myself lying on a clean, comfortable bed, while there bent over me a physician and an elderly woman. I learned that I had been found early in the morning in the rear of the house in a state of insensibility, and that the owner of the place […] had caused me to be brought in and placed on the bed. 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 27:

Forms

Synonyms

insensibleness

Translations (3)

bg безчувственост (the property of being insensible) · pt insensibilidade (the property of being insensible) · la indolentia (the property of being insensible)