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Insensibility. Bp. Hall.

In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually. The hills rise insensibly. Addison.

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

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.

Pertaining to, or forming, both nerves and sense organs.

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Previous sensation, notion, or idea. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Previous perception. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.

Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.

Supersensible.

Supersensible.

Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. [R.] Puller.

Insensible. [Obs.]

To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify. Coleridge.

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.

) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as…