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INEXTENSION n.
Want of extension; unextended state.
INOFFENSIVE a. 3 definitions
Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.
INSENSATE a.
Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.
INSENSE v.
To make to understand; to instruct. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
INSENSIBILITY n. 2 definitions
The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.
INSENSIBLE a. 4 definitions
Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton.
INSENSIBLENESS n.
Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
INSENSIBLY adv.
In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually. The hills rise insensibly. Addison.
INSENSITIVE a.
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.
INSENSUOUS a.
Not sensuous; not pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses. That intermediate door Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form And form insensuous. Mrs. Browning.
INTENSATE v.
To intensify. [R.] Emerson.
INTENSATION n.
The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax. [R.] Carlyle.
INTENSATIVE a.
Adding intensity; intensifying.
INTENSE a. 2 definitions
Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
INTENSELY adv. 2 definitions
To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.
INTENSENESS n.
The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.
INTENSIFICATION n.
The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
INTENSIFIER n.
One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
INTENSIFY v. 2 definitions
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
INTENSION n. 3 definitions
A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.
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