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ate or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation.

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.

Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

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…

f 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.

Insensibility. Bp. Hall.

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

The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. Bp. Hall.

A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. Pope.

Stony. [R.] "Possessed with stonish insensibility." Robynson (More's Utopia).

The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.