unsensibleness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unsensible + -ness.
Noun
[edit]unsensibleness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Insensibility; lack of feeling.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.12:
- Crantor had great reason to withstand the unsensiblenesse [translating indolence] of Epicurus, if it were so deeply rooted, that the approaching and birth of evils might gainsay it.