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adjective
- not having normal physical feeling
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- :It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
- not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
- :Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
- :Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be .
Etymology: negative in- + sensitive
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