desensitizing
- adjective
- /ˌdiːˈsɛn.sɪ.taɪ.zɪŋ/
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desensibilizante
- Repeated exposure to emotional trauma can lead to a desensitizing effect, making it harder to react to future events.
Like maybe this was like a, a desensitizing activity.
- Like maybe this was like a, a desensitizing activity.
- It just came off as rude and desensitized to Taylor.
- And there seems to be a people that are desensitized to this.
- Like I think I've had too much sex to the point where like I'm desensitized to like regular porn.
- Is it because of lack of human interaction and people and kids are desensitized here?
- Then they're exposed to music videos, to Netflix to say they start becoming desensitised to sexual contact very young.
- Reframing how you look at failure and the more you fail, the the more desensitized you get to it.
- And they make the distinction because because of the Internet and there's so much content, these pedophiles are desensitized.
- And you're completely desensitized to violence, to that sort of dark humour in a way, not humour, but Dark World.
- And, and all the desensitizing videos got me prepared for this moment where like all of a sudden we're going through this process.
- And a little bit of it is, is kind of like were maybe people have become desensitised to those guys being in the news for bad things.
- But we are so desensitized to new content that even the most exciting awaited content that comes out when it comes out all at once.
- That's another man dying, you know, So what it's, it's we're desensitised to it, but we need to people talk about it.
- So there is something I think there's a nihilism that goes on where these kids become sociopaths by the they're desensitized, OK.
Examples
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The desensitizing training helped the soldiers cope with the harsh realities of combat.
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Like maybe this was like a, a desensitizing activity.
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And, and all the desensitizing videos got me prepared for this moment where like all of a sudden we're going through this process.
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Is it because of lack of human interaction and people and kids are desensitized here?
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No, the whole audiences today are so desensitized, you have to throw it in their faces.
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I just want to be very clear that being desensitized in no way means that I don't value life.
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Reframing how you look at failure and the more you fail, the the more desensitized you get to it.
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And you're completely desensitized to violence, to that sort of dark humour in a way, not humour, but Dark World.
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What I'm saying is you've become, you've become so desensitized to like what you're seeing.
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After watching many horror movies, she felt desensitizing to the violence displayed on screen.
Synonyms
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3.9
Make someone less sensitive to unpleasant things
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8.9
Become used to something unpleasant so it no longer bothers you
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8.5
To make a person unable to feel pain or strong emotion
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4.2
Makes someone unable to feel physically or emotionally
Antonyms
How Desensitizing
Surface Forms
Morphology
desensitizing = desensitize (semi-transparent) = de + sensit + ize + ing
This adjective is a regular -ing form of the verb 'desensitize' and keeps the same causative meaning.
Etymology
The word desensitizing starts with de- meaning 'remove' and uses sense meaning 'feeling', the same root as sensitive. So to desensitize someone is like turning down the 'volume' on their feelings or reactions, making them less responsive to touch, pain, or strong emotion.