1. the condition of being unable to feel anything in a particular part of your body
2. the inability to think, feel, or react normally

Examples

• The cold weather caused numbness in his fingers.
• She experienced numbness in her leg after sitting for hours.
• The dentist’s injection created temporary numbness in her mouth.
• After the accident, he felt a strange numbness about everything.
• The shocking news left her in a state of emotional numbness.
• Numbness spread through his arm after he slept on it wrong.
• The medication helped reduce the numbness in her feet.