Synonyms for insensibility
Most common
unfeelingness numbness callousness hardness indifference apathy
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Unfeelingness
2. Indifference
indifference, apathy, stupor, unconsciousness, lethargy, stoicism, phlegm, dullness, narcosis, senselessness, inertness, torpor, sluggishness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The property of being insensible.
Forms
- Plural
- insensibilities → numbnesses, callousnesses, hardnesses, callosities…
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Indifference and insensibility designate the absence of feeling toward certain persons or things; apathy, entire absence of feeling. Indifference is a want of interest; insensibility is a want of feeling; unconcern has reference to consequences.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- hardness Mineral hardness is measured on the Mohs scale.
- numbness Don't eat till the numbness wears off.
- indifference The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.
- apathy Apathy is a paralysis of the soul, an early death.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| insensibility | steady | |
| hardness | falling | |
| numbness | rising | |
| callousness | steady | |
| unfeelingness | steady | |
| indifference | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- apathy3, stupor2, phlegm1, torpor2
- 8 letters
- hardness2, numbness2, lethargy3, stoicism4, dullness2, narcosis
- 9 letters
- inertness3, callosity
- 11 letters
- callousness3
- 12 letters
- indifference4, sluggishness3
- 13 letters
- senselessness, unfeelingness
- 14 letters
- insensibleness
- 15 letters
- unconsciousness4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (apathy3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- insensibilité
- Italiano
- insensibilità