insensibility

Examples

• All

• And then the Kardashians for insensibility, for not appreciating the pleasures sufficiently.

• 12 Newman dismissed the long period of separation from the West as "eight centuries ... of religious deadness and insensibility."

  Academic text (1990)

• Friedrich's insensibility becomes starkly clear in his treatment of suicide.

  Academic text (1994)

• I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, and disrespect.

  Academic text (2010)

• His insensibility towards the suffering of others shocked everyone in the room.

• The teacher was frustrated by the students' insensibility to their classmates' feelings.

• Her insensibility in response to the tragic news made it difficult for her friends to understand her.

Synonyms

I

insensitivity

vsinsensibility

16 5.5

A lack of care for other people's feelings or needs

is more about inner hardness and absence of feeling

C

callousness

vsinsensibility

6 7.4

A lack of concern for other people's feelings or suffering

is similar but focuses on general heartlessness rather than brief insensitivity

H

hardness

vsinsensibility

4 6.3

Lack of feeling or kindness in someone's behavior

is mainly an inner lack of feeling rather than stern conduct

I

impassivity

vsinsensibility

1 8.8

A lack of emotion or visible reaction

is a deeper absence of sympathy and warmth rather than silence

I

impassiveness

vsinsensibility

1 7.9

A lack of visible emotion

is more about moral coldness and hardened heart than mere reserve

C

coldheartedness

vsinsensibility

1 7.6

Not caring about other people

is broader lack of sensitivity including emotional numbness as well

I

impassibility

vsinsensibility

1 9.5

Not showing feeling or reaction to events

is stronger, denoting lack of compassion and hardness of heart

I

insensitiveness

vsinsensibility

1 7.6

Not noticing or caring about how other people feel

is more about deliberate hardness and absence of compassion

U

unfeelingness

vsinsensibility

8.3

A lack of care or sympathy

is similar but stresses a general absence of sensitivity

C

callosity

vsinsensibility

9.9

A lack of pity or kindness toward other people

is the same hardness but in broader emotional coldness

U

unemotionality

vsinsensibility

8.3

A state of showing little or no feeling

is about lack of compassion and heart rather than mere flatness

Antonyms

C

compassion

344 2.7

A strong feeling of care for someone who is suffering and a wish to help them

S

sensitivity

• Specialized

33 4.2

The body's ability to feel things like touch or light

How Sensitive

empathy

147 3.2

compassion

344 2.7

insensibility

1 7.6

indifference

66 4.6

callousness

6 7.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology