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The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.
William Thomas Green Morton

Meaning of "insensibility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INSENSIBILITY

insensibility  [ɪnˌsensəˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INSENSIBILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Insensibility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INSENSIBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Insensibility

"Insensibility" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War which explores the effect of warfare on soldiers, and the long- and short-term psychological effects that it has on them. The poem's title refers to the fact that the soldiers have lost the ability to feel due to the horrors which they faced on the Western Front during the First World War.

Definition of insensibility in the English dictionary

The first definition of insensibility in the dictionary is lacking sensation or consciousness. Other definition of insensibility is unawareness or indifference. Insensibility is also thoughtlessness or callousness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INSENSIBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INSENSIBILITY

inseem
inselberg
inselberge
inseminate
insemination
inseminator
insensate
insensately
insensateness
insensible
insensibleness
insensibly
insensitive
insensitively
insensitiveness
insensitivity
insensuous
insentience
insentiency
insentient

WORDS THAT END LIKE INSENSIBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of insensibility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INSENSIBILITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «insensibility» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of insensibility

Translation of «insensibility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INSENSIBILITY

Find out the translation of insensibility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of insensibility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «insensibility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

麻木
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insensibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

insensibility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असंवेदनशीलता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدم إدراك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бесчувственность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

insensibilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জ্ঞানহীনতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

insensibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketiadaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unempfindlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無感覚
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무감각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Insensible
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bất tỉnh nhân sự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணர்வின்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असहायता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

duyarsızlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

insensibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewrażliwość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нечутливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

insensibilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναισθησία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onsensitiwiteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

insensibility
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

følelsesløshet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of insensibility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INSENSIBILITY»

The term «insensibility» is regularly used and occupies the 79.924 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INSENSIBILITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about insensibility

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2 QUOTES WITH «INSENSIBILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word insensibility.
1
William Thomas Green Morton
The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.
2
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INSENSIBILITY»

Discover the use of insensibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to insensibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fits: Diagnosis and Immediate Treatment of Cases of ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
John H. Waters, 2010
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Chloroform superseded in dental operations, by a new method ...
THE EFFICIENCY OF CONGELATION TO PRODUCE INSENSIBILITY TO PAIN. The safety of this process of producing insensibility to pain being placed beyond all doubt, the remaining consideration relates to its efliciency. Is it eflicz'ent to ...
Fallon HORNE (and THORNTHWAITE (William Henry)), William Henry THORNTHWAITE, 1857
3
English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
INSENSIBILITY, from sense and able, signifies incapable of feeling. APATHY, from the Greek privative and iraSof feeling, implies without feeling. INDIFFERENCE. Indifference is a partial state of in* mind ; apathy and insensibility are general ...
George Crabb, 1818
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What is congelation? or, The benumbing influence of cold in ...
The idea that cold produced insensibility to pain has been floating about for ages. The principle was known, frozen up in the minds of men, but wanting the vivifying influence of the nineteenth century to thaw it into a practical channel.
R E. Harrison, 1858
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Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry
(Swinden, 524) For Swinden, good examples occur in several poems, including " the uneven and uncertainly rhyming stanzas of 'Insensibility.'" If we look at " Insensibility," the faltering line length and the slight concussion at the ends of lines ...
Lorrie Goldensohn, 2013
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The Poetry of Shell Shock: Wartime Trauma and Healing in ...
Caesar states, “Here Owen seeks to ironically contrast the justifiable 'insensibility' of the troops with the unjustifiable 'insensibility' of the home front.... Between the insensibility of both 'men' and civilians is the sensibility of [Owen], o‡cer and ...
Daniel Hipp, 2005
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order
INDIFFERENCE, INSENSIBILITY, APATHY. INDIFFERENCE signifies no dilfirence; that is, having no di erence of feeling for one thing more than another. IN SEN SIBILITY, from sense and able, si ifies incapable of feeling. APA HY, from the ...
George Crabb, 1816
8
Dramatic Experiments: Life according to Diderot
Let us begin with the strange concept of insensibility. What exactly could it mean? We have seen that for Diderot the general character of everything is sensibility, which we have defined as the way that everything is beyond itself, exposed to an  ...
Eyal Peretz, 2013
9
New Manual; Or, Symptomen-codex
22. His lower limbs feel restless and heavy, he has to move them all the time, Jtula. 23. Restlessness in the body, evening, with itching of the canthi, nostrils, face, and hairy scalp, Pkos. ac. Numbness, Insensibility. 1. When lying, the limbs go to ...
Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Charles Julius Hempel, 1853
10
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
ft is worth while here to ask, what was the position of the discovery at this time? A tooth had been painlessly drawn, and, at a previous time, an irritation of the pulmonary air tubes had been alleviated, with alleged insensibility, by the inhalation ...
‎1848

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INSENSIBILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term insensibility is used in the context of the following news items.
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A great sociologist explains the logic of our wars: “crackpot realism …
... and to use them in accordance with crackpot realism, because of the powerlessness, the apathy, the insensibility of publics and masses; they ... «Fabius Maximus website, Jul 15»
2
Jon Vickers, Robust Legendary Canadian Tenor, Dies at 88
... spiritual refinement, the sheer size of his voice, breadth as well as power, would surely have bludgeoned the listener into insensibility.". «Classicalite, Jul 15»
3
Cycling is not just about yellow, it's about all colours
“Becker choked him into a state of insensibility,” the New York Times reported, 'and the police were obliged to interfere. It was fully fifteen ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
4
- PC dies at election demo
On Tuesday he was called out again and found him in a state of complete insensibility. The young man had difficulty in articulating, but the ... «Rotherham Advertiser, Jul 15»
5
The Outsider — from the viewpoint of the victim's family
... of Camus' achievement; a post-colonial reading of a masterpiece that was flawed by its insensibility to the suffering of the great majority of the ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
'Terminator Genisys' Review: Nonsense and Insensibility
“Terminator Genisys” tries to squeeze blood from a corpse, and the ghastliness isn't confined to its star. At least Arnold Schwarzenegger has ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
7
Ally defends PNoy from Binay
Mel Senen Sarmiento disputed Aquino's alleged ineptness and insensibility in leading the country, citing the current government's continued ... «Tempo, Jun 15»
8
'Fifty shades of spray'
Meursault's moral insensibility and utter failure to show remorse not only challenges society's norms - here, as one critic put it, is "a powerful ... «Times LIVE, Jun 15»
9
Cuban Cardinal Set Straight after “No Political Prisoners” Claim
... in prison, says Ortega's words, beyond simply angering the Cuban community abroad, revealed an “insensibility as cruel as it offensive.”. «PanAm Post, Jun 15»
10
How We Impart Entrepreneurial Skills On Corps Members - Co …
If that happens, it might have been an outcome of sheer insensibility and ignorance of the great potentials that the corps member poses. «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»

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