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Meanings of
insensibility
in English
Portuguese
dureza
Catalan
duresa
Spanish
dureza
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Devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness.
hardness
callousness
callosity
unfeelingness
Portuguese
dureza
Catalan
insensibilitat
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A lack of sensibility.
sensibility
Catalan
insensibilitat
Synonyms
Examples for "
hardness
"
hardness
callousness
callosity
unfeelingness
Examples for "
hardness
"
1
The stiffened
hardness
of the speaker in a measure affected the boy.
2
The first confused
hardness
with progress; the second confused softness with progress.
3
The Japanese struck an unexpected strain of
hardness
in the Korean character.
4
Some of these approach the chrysoberyl and topaz in
hardness
and hue.
5
None of the cynicism and
hardness
of Thackeray appear in her pages.
1
They said
callousness
can never be the proper response to human tragedy.
2
It would indeed be an act of
callousness
to let it go.
3
I never heard of such damnable
callousness
in all my life before.
4
She looked at him in anger almost at what seemed a
callousness
.
5
Slidell's
callousness
curled the fingers of my free hand into a ball.
1
On my forefinger it has made a
callosity
.
2
Besides causing the animal considerable pain, chafing, if long continued, leads to the formation of a
callosity
.
3
A large
callosity
forms on the shoulders of the regular Unyamwesi porters, from the heavy weights laid on them.
4
When the best possible results succeed treatment, a large
callosity
is formed and movement of the pastern joint is restricted.
5
Their feet, by this kind of exercise, contract a
callosity
which renders the use of shoes quite unnecessary to them.
1
May God save his people from
unfeelingness
of heart!
2
Madame Fouchet herself, the woman, not the actress, was to blame, I think, for our
unfeelingness
.
3
It's ra'ally awful to witness to what a state of
unfeelingness
a people can be abandoned!
4
Nothing can better represent the sort of
unfeelingness
the whites have towards the Indians, than their conduct towards his remains.
5
A genuinely feeling soul has an insuperable repugnance alike for
unfeelingness
,
for false feeling, and for false expressions of feeling.
Usage of
insensibility
in English
1
There is the same
insensibility
in his heart as in his manners.
2
The shock jarred his boiling brain into the perfect quietude of
insensibility
.
3
At last he was brought home in a state of drunken
insensibility
.
4
Fortunately Aunt Caroline took this proof of
insensibility
in a flattering light.
5
He had seized upon her by violence in a moment of
insensibility
.
6
Nature could not support my emotions, and took her refuge in
insensibility
.
7
Altamont still lived, but he was in a state of complete
insensibility
.
8
It produces momentary
insensibility
,
and is followed by the most pungent pain.
9
But his firmness was deemed to be the result of heartless
insensibility
.
10
I know too that there are individual instances of cruelty, and
insensibility
.
11
They had shot him and stabbed him and beaten him into
insensibility
.
12
He thought her
insensibility
was caused by a sort of cataleptic seizure.
13
His pupils who knew of his misfortune were shocked by his
insensibility
.
14
His reading must have been limited by his
insensibility
to foreign languages.
15
To a common whip or switch his hide presents an absolute
insensibility
.
16
She strove to rise, but fell back and again relapsed into
insensibility
.
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insensibility
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
complete insensibility
relapse into insensibility
beat into insensibility
absolute insensibility
apparent insensibility
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Translations for
insensibility
Portuguese
dureza
Catalan
duresa
insensibilitat
Spanish
dureza
Insensibility
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Insensibility
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