1. lack of physical sensation or feeling
2. unconsciousness or lack of awareness
3. lack of emotional responsiveness or empathy

Examples

• The patient’s insensibility to pain made the surgery possible without anesthesia.
• After the accident, he fell into complete insensibility for several hours.
• Her insensibility to others’ suffering shocked her friends.
• The cold caused insensibility in his fingers and toes.
• His insensibility to criticism allowed him to continue his work undisturbed.
• The medication induced a temporary insensibility to physical discomfort.
• She was disturbed by her own insensibility to the tragic news.