insensate

Examples

• All

• How I used to caress the ball, that seemingly insensate lump, cooling my forehead with it, scoring my chin with the sharp varnished stitches of the seam.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Love is represented as illness, madness, death: "It's insensate, hopeless love -

  Fiction book (1993)

• Without it, we are insensate of ourselves and therefore part of nature without effort.

  Blog text (18)

• He is not conscious and not totally insensate.

  Academic text (2001)

• In a purposeless, insensate manner, distraught by the magnitude of the disaster, most of them rush.

  Blog text (9)

• You seem insensate to the fact that our current president is so morally corrupt that he pursues the deaths of children, by the millions, in the name of sexual freedom; you, ignoring the gravity of this monstrosity, think it a trifle that you can neglect in favor of promoting a particular social welfare program, etc.

  Blog text (15)

• She felt completely insensate after hearing the tragic news about her friend.

• In the freezing cold, the insensate numbness spread through his fingers and toes.

Synonyms

C

cold

vsinsensate

883 4.4

Unfriendly and distant in feeling or action

is broader by including both emotional distance and lack of physical sensation

I

insensitive

vsinsensate

124 4.6

Not showing care for other people's feelings or needs

has that lack of concern but also includes absence of physical feeling

N

numb

vsinsensate

62 4.1

Unable to feel or show emotion after something upsetting

includes that numbness but also covers physical lack of sensation and coldness

I

indifferent

vsinsensate

46 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

adds that indifference to a wider absence of physical feeling or compassion

A

apathetic

vsinsensate

24 6.8

Not showing much interest or energy

is similar but also implies absence of bodily feeling or active compassion

S

senseless

vsinsensate

15 4.2

Unconscious and unable to feel or respond

also implies emotional lack or absence of compassion, not only unconsciousness

U

unfeeling

vsinsensate

14 5.9

Not showing sympathy or care for other people's feelings

covers that emotional coldness but also lack of physical feeling or awareness

U

unsympathetic

vsinsensate

7 4.9

Not feeling sorry for someone or caring about their problems

is broader by adding an absence of physical sensation or general feeling

I

insensible

vsinsensate

1 7.3

Does not notice or care about things that upset other people

adds that lack of awareness to a wider absence of feeling or compassion

A

affectless

vsinsensate

1 9.3

A person who shows no emotion in the face or voice

is broader, applying to both lacking emotion and lacking physical sensation

I

insentient

vsinsensate

• Specialized

1 9.9

Unable to feel or be aware of things

also covers emotional unfeeling and lack of compassion as well as sensation

I

inconscient

vsinsensate

9.9

Not awake and not aware of surroundings

is broader by including emotional coldness and lack of compassion too

I

impassible

vsinsensate

8.3

Not showing any emotion on the face

is similar but also suggests absence of physical sensation or compassion

I

indurate

vsinsensate

• Formal

9.9

Not able to feel or show care for other people

is similar but also refers to lacking bodily sensation or awareness

H

highly insensitive

vsinsensate

5.5

Being very uncaring about other people's feelings

is similar in harshness but also covers bodily insensitivity and lack of compassion

Antonyms

S

sensitive

488 2.9

Aware of and careful about other people's feelings

E

empathetic

30 4.4

To understand and share other people's feelings

How Sensitive

responsive

61 4.0

sensitive

217 2.7

insensate

1 9.9

unfeeling

14 5.9

callous

41 7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology