| NOUN | attribute | unresponsiveness, deadness | the quality of being unresponsive |
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| 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" | |
| Synonym | deadness | |
| Narrower | frigidity, frigidness | sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse |
| 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 |
| Opposite | responsiveness | The quality of being responsive |
| Adjectives | unresponsive | not responding to some influence or stimulus |
| unresponsive | aloof or indifferent | |
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