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How to pronounce insensibility in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness
Type of insensitiveness, insensitivity
Has types dullness
Derivation insensible
Type Words
Type of unconsciousness
Derivation insensible

Examples of insensibility

insensibility
A chemical agent that induces stupor, coma, or insensibility to pain.
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You can't medicate them to insensibility for a year and a half.
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He or she may also exhibit insensibility or sluggishness.
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There is a way to create immediate insensibility so that the animal suffers the shortest amount of time.
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Just when you think television has dulled all children today into insensibility, here's proof that ingenuity still does exist in the younger generation.
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When he pulled over, he cut the lights, but left the engine running for warmth while we necked our way into schnapps-tinged, sex-charged insensibility.
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More examples
  • A lack of sensibility
  • Unfeelingness: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
  • (insensible) incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"
  • (insensible) indiscernible: barely able to be perceived; "the transition was almost indiscernible"; "an almost insensible change"
  • 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 which it has on them. ...
  • Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense.
  • Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, or physical life. ...
  • Unconsciousness, more appropriately referred to as loss of consciousness or lack of consciousness, is a dramatic alteration of mental state that involves complete or near-complete lack of responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli. ...
  • The property of being insensible