Insensibility

Word INSENSIBILITY
Character 13
Hyphenation in sen si bil i ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Insensibility"

What do we mean by insensibility?

The property of being insensible.

To be so angered or enraged at bad spelling found the internet that you become incensed and must burn incense to regain a zen-like state of calm Urban Dictionary

It's the word insane and intense combined to form one very cool word. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Insensibility

The word "insensibility" in example sentences

But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

Commend me to what you call the insensibility of the ❋ Gustav Freytag (1855)

He has reproached me for what he terms my insensibility to his perfections, and says ❋ S. C. Hall (1840)

For to be without grief having health, that they call insensibility, and not pleasure. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Thank heaven! we meet with few minds like that of Sir Charles Verville; such a degree of savage insensibility is unnatural. ❋ Unknown (1769)

They were strangers to that grace of wisdom which is liberally given to all who ask it; and their insensibility was all the more inexcusable that so many miracles had been performed which might have led to a certain conviction of the presence and the power of God with them. ❋ Unknown (1871)

There is a strange and peculiar sensation experienced in recovering from a state of insensibility, which is almost indescribable: a sort of dreamy, confused consciousness; a half-waking, half-sleeping condition, accompanied with a feeling of weariness, which, however, is by no means disagreeable. ❋ Unknown (1859)

I am very solicitous, both by study and argument, to enlarge this privilege of insensibility, which is in me naturally raised to a pretty degree, so that consequently I espouse and am very much moved with very few things. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)

Moral insensibility, which is decidedly more congenital than contracted, is either total or partial, and is displayed in criminals who inflict personal injuries, as much as in others, with a variety of symptoms which I have recorded elsewhere, and which are eventually reduced to these conditions of the moral sense in a large number of criminals -- a lack of repugnance to the idea and execution of the offence, previous to its commission, and the absence of remorse after committing it. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Churchill’s incisive, compelling monologues tended to disregard the feelings and opinions of his audience and created the aura of gross insensibility which is a determined flaw in a democratic statesman who must not only expand ideas but impel others to accept them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a spent wave melts at the foot of a rock, so all his strength passed away, and he lay awhile in a kind of insensibility, -- a state in which, though consciously existing, he had no further control over his thoughts and feelings. ❋ Various (N/A)

Reply Obj. 1: As the Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 11), insensibility which is opposed to temperance "is not very common," so that like its species which are opposed to the species of intemperance it has no name. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Jewish saint and like his master Plato, to scorn all bodily limitations and recommend "insensibility" ([Greek: apatheia]) [273] by which he means that man should crush his physical desires and repress his feelings. ❋ Norman Bentwich (1927)

He has only once alluded to the Christians in his works, and then it is under the opprobrious title of 'Galileans,' who practised a kind of insensibility in painful circumstances, and an indifference to worldly interests, which Epictetus unjustly sets down to 'mere habit.' ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

It was but too much the habit, even of the most humane and generous soldiers of that age, to think very lightly of the bloodshed and devastation inseparable from great martial exploits; and the heart of William was steeled, not only by professional insensibility, but by that sterner insensibility which is the effect of ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

These unfortunate people, uncared for by the blacks, were reduced to live on tapioca in the woods; and as they had neither the insensibility which is the result of slavery, nor the fortitude which springs from a liberal education, to enable them to support their poverty, their situation was deplorable. ❋ Bernardin De Saint-Pierre (1775)

A proof of this is afforded in the transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris: they inform us of a man who had his scull taken off, in the room of which his brain was recovered with skin; in proportion as a pressure was made by the hand on his brain, the man fell into a kind of insensibility, which deprived him of all feeling. ❋ Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1756)

Churchill's incisive, compelling monologues tended to disregard the feelings and opinions of his audience and created the aura of gross insensibility which is a determined flaw in a democratic statesman who must not only expand ideas but impel others to accept them. ❋ Admin (2010)

Lipothymy, a lower degree of weakness, is characterized by a general depravity of motion and speech, and a failure of the sense organs termed "insensibility" (James, ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's not that I don't see the irony of the situation, but if I see one more live broadcast of random [neural] firings on twitter in which "[incensed]" is spelled "insensed" I'm going to have to burn this entire box [nag champa] to calm down. ❋ The_stickler (2011)

[Dude], that [spaghetti] was insense! ❋ Ravennn (2007)

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