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/ɪnsˈɛnsətɪv/ /ɪnsˈɛnsɪtɪv/ Listen

Insensitive

adjective

Not responsive to physical stimuli.

Deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive.

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"Insensitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... will take the trouble to read a whole volume of the modern Variorum. There has been much editing, much comment, but singularly little criticism of Shakespeare; a half-pennyworth of bread to an intolerable deal of sack. The pendulum has swung violently from niggling and insensitive textual quibble to that equally distressing exercise of human ingenuity, idealistic encomium, of which there is a typical example in the opening sentence of Mr Masefield's remarks upon the play: 'Like the best Shakespearean tragedies, King John ...

— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry

... the Arab, the uncultivated Italian is insensitive to certain smells that revolt us; while he cannot endure, on the other hand, the scent of some flowers. I have seen a man professing to feel faint at the odour of crushed geranium leaves. They are fiori di morti, he says: ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

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