noun
- the quality or state of being unable to feel or perceive; lack of sensation or awareness
- the quality of being emotionally unaffected or indifferent; lack of feeling or compassion
Examples
- The patient's insensibleness to pain was a symptom of nerve damage.
- His insensibleness to her suffering made him a poor friend.
- After the accident, she drifted into insensibleness and did not wake for hours.
- The critic's insensibleness to the artist's vision was evident in his harsh review.
- Years of hardship had bred an insensibleness to others' misfortune.
- The drug induced a temporary insensibleness that allowed the surgery to proceed.