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insensibility

N การ ไร้ความรู้สึก  ความ เมินเฉย 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSENSIBILITY

n.[from insensible. ] 1. Want of sensibility, or the power of feeling or perceiving. A frozen limb is in a state of insensibility, as is an animal body after death.
2. Want of the power to be moved or affected; want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion and passion. Not to be moved at the distresses of others denotes an insensibility extremely unnatural.
3. Dullness; stupidity; torpor.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INSENSIBILITY

In *sen `si *bil "i *ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. insensibilité. ]

 

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

 

2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

 

Syn. -- Dullness; numbness; unfeelingness; stupidity; torpor; apathy; impassiveness; indifference.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

insensibility

in sen si bil i ty |inˌsensəˈbilitē ˈˌɪnˌsɛnsəˈbɪlədi | noun unconsciousness: I flogged him into insensibility. inability to feel something, esp. to be moved emotionally. lack of awareness or concern; indifference: your insensibility to the extreme importance of the mission we are on. ORIGIN late Middle English: partly from Old French insensibilite or late Latin insensibilitas (from in- not + Latin sensibilis sensible, from sensus sense ), partly from in- 1 without, lacking + sensibility .

 

Oxford Dictionary

insensibility

in |sens |ibil ¦ity |ɪnˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti | noun 1 [ mass noun ] unconsciousness: I flogged him into insensibility. inability to be moved emotionally. 2 lack of awareness or concern; indifference: your insensibility to the extreme importance of the mission we are on. ORIGIN late Middle English: partly from Old French insensibilite or late Latin insensibilitas (from in- not + Latin sensibilis sensible , from sensus sense ), partly from in- 1 without + sensibility .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

insensibility

in s n si b l i ty 名詞 U かたく 無意識 ; 人事不省 .