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non-ˈsensitive, a. and n. [non- 3.] a. adj. Not sensitive. †b. n. A thing without feeling.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. xviii. 56 Whatsoeuer we preach of Contentednesse in want; no precepts can so gaine vpon Nature, as to make her a non-sensitiue. 1836Smart, Non⁓sensitive, wanting sensation. 1898Westm. Gaz. 14 June 2/1 A wife of the sturdy, enduring, non-sensitive type. So non-ˈsensitiveness.
1890Sir F. A. Abel in Nature 4 Sept. 444/2 Comparative non-sensitiveness to explosion by friction or percussion. |