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insensitivity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | insensitiveness |
| Type of | inability, unfitness |
| Has types | crassitude, crassness, hardness, insensibility, tin ear, unfeelingness, unkindness, callosity, unperceptiveness, callousness |
| Derivation | insensitive |
Examples of insensitivity
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Sometimes, clearly, Gervais is spoofing insensitivity rather than practicing it.
From the washingtonpost.com
The insensitivity issue does tend to crop up in the form of poorly chosen words.
From the nytimes.com
The incident was an example of thoughtless insensitivity towards a young parent.
From the nzherald.co.nz
For these animals, pain insensitivity to acid is evidently a survival advantage.
From the sciencedaily.com
You either cringe at the immodesty and insensitivity and disregard for history.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Neural correlates of empathy in patients with congenital insensitivity to pain.
From the nature.com
Insensitivity to pain may also result from abnormalities in the nervous system.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This mistreatment, he says, is a combination of deceit, insensitivity and neglect.
From the time.com
The political naivety, and brutal insensitivity, of the Black Papers has gone.
From the guardian.co.uk
- The inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
- (insensitive) not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"
- (Insensitive (House)) Houses third season ran from September 5, 2006 to May 29, 2007. Early in the season, House temporarily regains the use of his leg, due to Ketamine treatment, after he was shot in the season two finale. ...
- (Insensitive (song)) "Insensitive" is a song recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Jann Arden, released as a single from her 1994 second album Living Under June. Unlike most of her material, Arden did not compose it herself. It was instead composed by her friend, Canadian songwriter Anne Loree.
- (insensitive) not having normal physical feeling; not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic
- (insensitive) adj (tactless; not showing gentle politeness) sentaktaZ,PIV
- An old term for resistance. Now used to refer to cases where a fungus is not inherently controlled by a fungicide, e.g DMI fungicides do not control Phytophthora infestans.
- To pain means that the painful stimulus is not even perceived: a patient cannot describe the intensity or type of pain.
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome
