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where there's no sense there's no feeling en · X

Meanings

1. A living thing of little or no intelligence does not feel pain or other negative sensations.
   • Mrs. Hooper says where there's no sense there's no feeling, but I do feel it. It hurts. 1948, Audrey Lillian Barker, Innocents: Variations on a Theme, page 96:
   • 'Where there's no sense there's no feeling,' they would say when they had hurt some creature by accident or through carelessness. By sense they meant wits or understanding, and these they imagined purely human attributes. 1945, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford:
   • They say where there's no sense there's no feeling; that would make the clods and oafs round here among the most insensitive, unfeeling air and noise polluters in the western world. 2011, Phil Fletcher, Living in Fear of My Next Nadir, page 306: