noun
- lack of physical sensation or feeling
- unconsciousness or lack of awareness
- 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.