Term Gallery logo

Meanings of numbness in English

Portuguese
indiferença
Catalan
apatia
Spanish
indiferencia

The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.

        indiferença
        Usage of numbness in English
        1
        Ten minutes later Barbara felt a cold numbness spreading through her body.
        Darkness
        2
        The first inspiration produced numbness and loss of feeling in the chest.
        Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
        3
        He sallied out after breakfast-thesame numbness; but he walked it off.
        What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
        4
        He spoke with neither courage nor despair but a kind of numbness.
        Funeral in Blue
        5
        The twilight and stillness of the drawing-room seemed to increase his numbness.
        The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
        6
        He was stunned, sunk in the dull numbness of a heavy fall.
        Poor Relations
        7
        I looked;-anda numbness, an iciness of feeling instantly pervaded my frame.
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
        8
        Vathi nodded, not complaining, though her numbness would not have passed yet.
        Arcanum Unbounded
        9
        He tried to clear his mind of numbness, of fatigue, of pain.
        Worldwinder
        10
        The numbness was gone from his limbs and he could walk about.
        The Danger Trail
        11
        He welcomed the numbness, the release from the shameful feelings of lust.
        Silent screams
        12
        They had been replaced by a vague numbness in body and soul.
        The Complete Alien Omnibus
        13
        Something was burning through that deep knot of numbness inside of him.
        Arcanum Unbounded
        14
        He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair.
        The road
        15
        He might have feigned numbness, but he was hardly immune to sensation.
        A Darker Shade of Magic
        16
        As the technicians worked, their attitude changed from shocked numbness to anger.
        Planet of the Damned
        About this term
        More collocations
        Translations for numbness
        Numbness through the time
        Numbness across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common