Meaning | The quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events. |
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Example | "she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident" |
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Synonym | deadness |
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Narrower | frigidity, frigidness | sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse |
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resistance | The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) |
Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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Opposite | responsiveness | The quality of being responsive |
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Adjectives | unresponsive | not responding to some influence or stimulus |
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unresponsive | aloof or indifferent |