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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section I. Affections in General |
| Section IV. Possessive Relations |
| 823. Insensibility. |
| NOUN: | INSENSIBILITY, insensibleness; want of sensibility [See Insensibility]; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia, vis inertiæ [L.]; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, insusceptibility, unimpressibility, luke-warmness. COLDNESS; cold -fit, - blood, - heart; coolness; frigidity, sang-froid [F.], stoicism, imperturbation (inexcitability) [See Inexcitability]; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance (indifference) [See Indifference]; recklessness [See Rashness]; callousness, callosity, obtundity, brutification; heart of stone, blood and iron, stock and stone, marble, deadness. neutrality; quietism, vegetation. TORPOR, torpidity; obstupefaction [obs.], lethargy, coma, trance; sleep [See Inactivity]; inanimation [rare], suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness &c. (physical insensibility) [See Physical Insensibility]; analgesia. stoic, Indian, man of iron, pococurante, pococurantist; the Fat Boy in Pickwick. TRIFLER, dabbler, dilettante, sciolist [See Ignoramus]. |
| VERB: | BE INSENSIBLE &c. adj.; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility &c. n.; not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for [See Indifference]; have -, feel -, take- no interest in; nil admirari [L.]; not care a straw (unimportance) [See Unimportance] for; disregard (neglect) [See Neglect]; set at naught &c. (make light of) [See Underestimation]; turn a deaf ear to (inattention) [See Inattention]; vegetate. RENDER INSENSIBLE, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, chloroform, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify, brutalize. INURE; harden, harden the heart; steel, caseharden, sear. |
| ADJECTIVE: | INSENSIBLE, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; obtundent, insusceptible or unsusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling; unmoral. APATHETIC, unemotional, leucophlegmatic [obs.], phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold cold-blooded, cold-hearted; cold as charity; flat, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous [rare], torporific; sleepy (inactive) [See Inactivity]; languid, half-hearted, tame; numb, numbed; comatose; anæsthetic [See Physical Insensibility]; stupefied, chloroformed, palsy-stricken. INDIFFERENT, lukewarm, Laodicean, careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive [See Inattention]; neglectful [See Neglect]; disregarding. UNCONCERNED, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci [F.]; unambitious [See Indifference]. UNAFFECTED, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck; unblushing (shameless) [See Insolence]; unanimated; vegetative. CALLOUS, thick-skinned, pachydermatous, impervious; hard, hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled -, proof- against; imperturbable (inexcitable) [See Inexcitability]; unfelt. |
| ADVERB: | INSENSIBLY &c. adj.; æquo animo [L.], without being -moved, - touched, - impressed; in cold blood; with dry eyes, with withers unwrung. |
| INTERJECTION: | never mind! it is of no consequence &c (unimportant) [See Importance]; it cannot be helped! it is all the same! |
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