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Definition of insensibility in English: insensibilitynoun ɪnˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtiɪnˌsɛnsəˈbɪlədi 1mass noun Unconsciousness. I flogged him into insensibility Example sentencesExamples - British soldiers often drank themselves into insensibility in the ‘wet canteen’.
- Only a romantic school girl would drug herself into insensibility.
- He faded into insensibility, and passed from his blameless life on 12 February 1804, unaccompanied by his former intellectual powers.
- When the chickens pass through it, in theory, it shocks them into insensibility and immobilizes them.
- The conference social life was its usual nightmare - all these fat birds dancing round their handbags and their blokes drinking themselves into insensibility.
- It is an effective process which induces immediate unconsciousness and insensibility or an induction to a period of unconsciousness without distress.
- But there were those who faced a more protracted end: numbed into insensibility after days of clinging to a raft or boat in the stormy north Atlantic.
- The other two potentialities described in the Sankhya philosophy, rajas, physical dynamism and tamas, insensibility, are rendered ineffective.
- In my view best practice is based on the definition that we had earlier that it is least disturbance of the animal in its natural environment and it is the most rapid route to insensibility.
- In a proportion of cases it results from massive injuries to the chest and vital organs, although insensibility and death will normally follow within a matter of seconds once the fox is caught.
- Wherever a Jew was met he was savagely beaten into insensibility.
- Having bartered away his waistcoat, shirt, and stockings, and drank until he is in a state of total insensibility, he is a perfect skeleton.
- Such cut severs all the great blood vessels of the neck, and produces instantaneous insensibility in the animal.
- What it was hoped to achieve was to reduce the time to insensibility as far as was practical, not instantaneous insensibility, but what was practical under those conditions.
- The only option is to drug her into insensibility and unconsciousness.
- My first three times back to work I came home to find him in varying degrees of insensibility from drink.
- As the Burns report says: ‘in the vast majority of cases the time [from capture] to insensibility and death is no more than a few seconds’ - to which one may add that this is a better deal than a wild animal can normally expect.
Synonyms unconsciousness, stupor, oblivion, inertia - 1.1 Inability to be moved emotionally.
Lady Grafton's insensibility bordered on cruelty Example sentencesExamples - Her spokeswoman said: ‘Ms Andrews firmly believes that while the entire world is in mourning, it would be an expression of insensibility on her part to participate in a festive act.’
- His usual sullen insensibility is disrupted by unpredictable explosions of rage.
- Giovanni's rage was quelled into an aspect of sullen insensibility.
- It was obvious now… each time I thought about my relationship with Kiley, I justified it by Carter's insensibility.
- Thank the Gods for a woman like her - with the addled sanity of palace life, and my own befuddling emotions, she is sense in the face of total insensibility.
2Lack of awareness or concern; indifference. your insensibility to the extreme importance of the mission we are on Example sentencesExamples - In contrast to anaesthesia, which signifies loss of feeling - including such sensations as heat and cold, consciousness being optional - the Oxford English Dictionary defines analgesia as insensibility to pain; painlessness.
- By this time, we've learned that a willed insensibility was one of Brahms's characteristic traits, one which he used to fend off bits of the world he didn't like.
- Who can say it has not its energies of reason and of will in some unknown sphere, quite consistently with the reality of its insensibility to the external world?
- This produces a chilling assessment of a future of surplus insensibility.
- In our behaviour, there is an increased insensibility and a frightening decrease of civility, decency and sense of justice.
- Or if they have witnessed the cruelties of slavery, by remaining silent spectators they have naturally become callous - an insensibility has ensued which prepares them to apologize even for barbarity.
- Critic Geoffrey Hartman has recently described the impact of suffering on collective consciousness in the late twentieth century as ‘the progress of insensibility, or future non-shock.’
- I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect.
- The ongoing investigation by police and other related agencies is unveiling, as expected, shocking facts about our insensibility to safety measures at the mass-transit system used by millions of commuters every day.
- Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things.
- His eventual recourse to a standard of five argues indifference or insensibility.
- But Prospero's insensibility to the nonhuman processes not merely behind and beyond the battlements, is ‘immune’ - as Prynne once wrote of the rain - ‘to all denial’.
- The presence of evil should provoke a righteous anger, which if absent constitutes a sinful insensibility…
- Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
Origin Late Middle English: partly from Old French insensibilite or late Latin insensibilitas (from in- 'not' + Latin sensibilis 'sensible', from sensus 'sense'), partly from in-1 'without' + sensibility. Definition of insensibility in US English: insensibilitynounɪnˌsɛnsəˈbɪlədiinˌsensəˈbilədē 1Unconsciousness. I flogged him into insensibility Example sentencesExamples - British soldiers often drank themselves into insensibility in the ‘wet canteen’.
- Such cut severs all the great blood vessels of the neck, and produces instantaneous insensibility in the animal.
- In a proportion of cases it results from massive injuries to the chest and vital organs, although insensibility and death will normally follow within a matter of seconds once the fox is caught.
- What it was hoped to achieve was to reduce the time to insensibility as far as was practical, not instantaneous insensibility, but what was practical under those conditions.
- But there were those who faced a more protracted end: numbed into insensibility after days of clinging to a raft or boat in the stormy north Atlantic.
- The only option is to drug her into insensibility and unconsciousness.
- It is an effective process which induces immediate unconsciousness and insensibility or an induction to a period of unconsciousness without distress.
- He faded into insensibility, and passed from his blameless life on 12 February 1804, unaccompanied by his former intellectual powers.
- Only a romantic school girl would drug herself into insensibility.
- Wherever a Jew was met he was savagely beaten into insensibility.
- In my view best practice is based on the definition that we had earlier that it is least disturbance of the animal in its natural environment and it is the most rapid route to insensibility.
- As the Burns report says: ‘in the vast majority of cases the time [from capture] to insensibility and death is no more than a few seconds’ - to which one may add that this is a better deal than a wild animal can normally expect.
- When the chickens pass through it, in theory, it shocks them into insensibility and immobilizes them.
- Having bartered away his waistcoat, shirt, and stockings, and drank until he is in a state of total insensibility, he is a perfect skeleton.
- The other two potentialities described in the Sankhya philosophy, rajas, physical dynamism and tamas, insensibility, are rendered ineffective.
- My first three times back to work I came home to find him in varying degrees of insensibility from drink.
- The conference social life was its usual nightmare - all these fat birds dancing round their handbags and their blokes drinking themselves into insensibility.
Synonyms unconsciousness, stupor, oblivion, inertia - 1.1 Inability to feel something, especially to be moved emotionally.
Example sentencesExamples - Her spokeswoman said: ‘Ms Andrews firmly believes that while the entire world is in mourning, it would be an expression of insensibility on her part to participate in a festive act.’
- It was obvious now… each time I thought about my relationship with Kiley, I justified it by Carter's insensibility.
- Thank the Gods for a woman like her - with the addled sanity of palace life, and my own befuddling emotions, she is sense in the face of total insensibility.
- His usual sullen insensibility is disrupted by unpredictable explosions of rage.
- Giovanni's rage was quelled into an aspect of sullen insensibility.
- 1.2 Lack of awareness or concern; indifference.
your insensibility to the extreme importance of the mission we are on Example sentencesExamples - This produces a chilling assessment of a future of surplus insensibility.
- But Prospero's insensibility to the nonhuman processes not merely behind and beyond the battlements, is ‘immune’ - as Prynne once wrote of the rain - ‘to all denial’.
- The presence of evil should provoke a righteous anger, which if absent constitutes a sinful insensibility…
- By this time, we've learned that a willed insensibility was one of Brahms's characteristic traits, one which he used to fend off bits of the world he didn't like.
- In contrast to anaesthesia, which signifies loss of feeling - including such sensations as heat and cold, consciousness being optional - the Oxford English Dictionary defines analgesia as insensibility to pain; painlessness.
- I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect.
- Who can say it has not its energies of reason and of will in some unknown sphere, quite consistently with the reality of its insensibility to the external world?
- In our behaviour, there is an increased insensibility and a frightening decrease of civility, decency and sense of justice.
- The ongoing investigation by police and other related agencies is unveiling, as expected, shocking facts about our insensibility to safety measures at the mass-transit system used by millions of commuters every day.
- His eventual recourse to a standard of five argues indifference or insensibility.
- Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
- Or if they have witnessed the cruelties of slavery, by remaining silent spectators they have naturally become callous - an insensibility has ensued which prepares them to apologize even for barbarity.
- Critic Geoffrey Hartman has recently described the impact of suffering on collective consciousness in the late twentieth century as ‘the progress of insensibility, or future non-shock.’
- Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things.
Origin Late Middle English: partly from Old French insensibilite or late Latin insensibilitas (from in- ‘not’ + Latin sensibilis ‘sensible’, from sensus ‘sense’), partly from in- ‘without’ + sensibility. |