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   insensibility

   /ɪnˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti/

   noun

   • 1. unconsciousness: "he drank until he was in a state of total insensibility"
   • ▪ inability to be moved emotionally: "Lady Grafton's insensibility bordered on cruelty"
   • 2. lack of awareness or concern; indifference: "your insensibility to the extreme importance of the mission we are on"

   Word Origin late Middle English: partly from Old French insensibilite or late Latin insensibilitas (from in- ‘not’ + Latin sensibilis ‘sensible’, from sensus ‘sense’), partly from in-1 ‘without’ + sensibility.

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