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A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

e like. Condensing electroscope (Physics), a form of electroscope in which an increase of sensibility is obtained by the use of a condenser.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.] It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath. Sir W. Scott. Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost beare…

A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it. -- Hy`per*æs*thet"ic, a.

Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy. [R.]

Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. Coleridge.

activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.

Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.

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.

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton.

Insensibility. Bp. Hall.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:

Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- Mon`o*path"ic, a.

le shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.…