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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English insensible, from Old French insensible, from Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]insensible (comparative more insensible, superlative most insensible)
- Unable to be perceived by the senses.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.
- Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “ […] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
- 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
- The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."
- Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
- Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
- 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
- If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, […] it shall be quashed.
- Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- In spite of her deep-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection […]
- Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
- Synonym: insensitive
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[edit]Translations
[edit]unable to be perceived by the sense
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incapable of emotional feeling
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French insensible, from Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.sibl/
- Homophone: insensibles
Adjective
[edit]insensible (plural insensibles)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “insensible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]insensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural insensibles)
- insensible, insensitive, callous, cold, tactless
- Antonym: sensible
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “insensible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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