Meaning | Deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive. |
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Example | "insensitive to the needs of the patients" |
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Attribute of | sensitivity, sensitiveness | sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) |
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Narrower | callous, indurate, pachydermatous | emotionally hardened |
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dead, numb | (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity |
dull | blunted in responsiveness or sensibility |
insensible, unaffected | unaware of or indifferent to |
soulless | lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling |
thick-skinned, tough-skinned | Insensitive to criticism |
See also | hard | dispassionate |
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insensible | Incapable of physical sensation |
tough | not given to gentleness or sentimentality |
unresponsive | not responding to some influence or stimulus |
Opposite | sensitive | Susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others |
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Spanish | insensible |
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Catalan | insensible |
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Nouns | insensitivity, insensitiveness | the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment |
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Adverbs | insensitively | in an insensitive manner |
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