insensibility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INSENSIBIL'ITY, noun [from insensible.] 1. Want of sensibility, or the power of feeling or perceiving. A frozen limb is in a state of insensibility as is an animal body after death. 2. Want of the power to be moved or affected; want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion and passion. Not to be moved at the distresses of others denotes an insensibility extremely unnatural. 3. Dullness; stupidity; torpor.
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