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adjective

Insensible adj.

1.

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility; unconscious.

2.

Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; often used with of or to. "Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness." "Lost in their loves, insensible of shame."

3.

Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion. "Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm." "They fall away, And languish with insensible decay."

4.

Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless. (Obs.) "If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed."

5.

Incapable of feeling a specific sensation or emotion; as, insensible to pity.

Synonyms: Imperceptible; imperceivable; dull; stupid; torpid; numb; unfeeling; apathetic; stoical; impassive; indifferent; unsusceptible; hard; callous.

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"Insensible" Quotes from Famous Books

... gone down; the sound of distant firing had ceased, and the darkness made the three friends feel still more forcibly how easy it would have been to gain the opposite bank, carrying in their arms the wounded man. He, insensible to all that was passing, ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... and the other still held by that convulsive clasp. Miss Morison was half above him, partly supported by a chair which still held by its fastenings to the floor. He could not see her face, and his body was so twisted that he could not move his head with freedom. Berenice was evidently insensible, but whether stunned from the shock or more seriously hurt he could not tell. He struggled fiercely to free himself, straining her to his breast. There were still movements in the car after it had overturned. It rocked and settled; ...

— The Puritans • Arlo Bates

... absolutely indifferent to the opinion of my former companions and avoided them entirely; I now lost myself in the smaller gambling dens of Leipzig, where only the very scum of the students congregated. Insensible to any feeling of self-respect, I bore even the contempt of my sister Rosalie; both she and my mother hardly ever deigning to cast a glance at the young libertine whom they only saw at rare intervals, looking deadly pale and worn out: my ever-growing despair ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... Westwood,—You think me, perhaps, and not without apparent reason, ungrateful and insensible to your letter, but indeed I am neither one nor the other, and I am writing now to try and prove it to you. I was much touched by some tones of kindness in the letter, and it was welcome altogether, and I did not need the 'owl' which came after ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... insensible to the perils of bringing within her borders a bloc of people who are not and never will be Italian, is clearly shown by the following extract from an Italian ...

— The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AEgean • Edward Alexander Powell

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