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/ɪnsˈɛnsəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Insensible adj.

1.

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility; unconscious.

2.

Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; often used with of or to. "Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness." "Lost in their loves, insensible of shame."

3.

Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion. "Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm." "They fall away, And languish with insensible decay."

4.

Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless. (Obs.) "If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed."

5.

Incapable of feeling a specific sensation or emotion; as, insensible to pity.

Synonyms: Imperceptible; imperceivable; dull; stupid; torpid; numb; unfeeling; apathetic; stoical; impassive; indifferent; unsusceptible; hard; callous.

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"Insensible" Quotes from Famous Books

... attendants from the apartment fainting. It was the duke's, ward, the Signora Florinda. The surprise and delight which crowded itself upon her gentle sensibility, was too much for her to bear, and she sank insensible into the arms of ...

— The Duke's Prize - A Story of Art and Heart in Florence • Maturin Murray

... insensible to all such influences. In the Netherlands strict penal laws were in force. In a letter addressed to the German Empire he condemned the decree of Nuremberg, and, like Hadrian, compared Luther to Mahomet. Further, ...

— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... He suffered them quietly to adjust his iron belt, to fasten the chain around his neck. He seemed insensible to all that was passing. This fearful blow had annihilated him; and the giant who, but a short time before, had thought to conquer the world, was now a weak, trembling, defenceless child. When he was ordered to rise to have the chains annexed to his iron girdle, and fastened ...

— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

... frequently restrain the use of the most lawful enjoyments, should inculcate the practice of the most abominable crimes; that a large society should resolve to dishonor itself in the eyes of its own members; and that a great number of persons of either sex, and every age and character, insensible to the fear of death or infamy, should consent to violate those principles which nature and education had imprinted most deeply in their minds. Nothing, it should seem, could weaken the force or destroy the effect ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... the thoughts of his sister, the more he affected to remain insensible to the natural seductions of his neighbor, to whom Lenaieff, on the contrary, addressed continually, in his soft and caressing voice, compliments upon compliments and ...

— Zibeline, Complete • Phillipe de Massa

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