Definition of Insensibility

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lack of physical sensation, state of being inanimate; insensitivity, coldness; stupidity, senselessness

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(n.)
Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

(n.)
The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

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insensibility
\in*sen`si*bil"i*ty\ (?), n. [cf. f. insensibilité.]
1. the state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.
2. want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

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Noun
1. a lack of sensibility
(antonym) sensibility
(hypernym) unconsciousness
2. devoid of passion or feeling
(synonym) unfeelingness, callousness, hardness
(hypernym) insensitivity, insensitiveness

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Insensibility is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War which explores the effect of warfare on soldiers, and the long and short term psychological effects which it has on them. The poem's title refers to the fact that the soldiers have lost the ability to feel due to the horrors which they faced on the Western Front during the First World War.

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