Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Insensibility

Nouns
  • insensibility, insensibleness
  • moral insensibility
  • inertness, inertia
  • impassibility, impassibleness
  • inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness. cold fit, cold blood, cold heart
  • coldness, coolness
  • frigidity
  • stoicism, imperturbation etc. (inexcitability) [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability
  • nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes
  • insouciance etc. (indifference) Indifference
  • recklessness etc. Rashness
  • callousness
  • heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness. torpor, torpidity
  • obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state
  • sleep etc. Inactivity
  • suspended animation
  • stupor, stupefaction
  • paralysis, palsy
  • numbness etc. (physical insensibility) Physical Insensibility. neutrality
  • quietism, vegetation.
Verbs
  • be insensible etc. adj.
  • have a rhinoceros hide
  • show insensibility etc. n.
  • not mind, not care, not be affected by
  • have no desire for etc. Indifference
  • have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in
  • not care a straw for etc. (unimportance) Unimportance
  • disregard etc. (neglect) Neglect
  • set at naught etc. (make light of) Underestimation
  • turn a deaf ear to etc. (inattention) Inattention
  • vegetate. render insensible, render callous
  • blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy
  • brutify
  • brutalize
  • chloroform, anaesthetize, put under
  • assify. inure
  • harden the heart
  • steel, caseharden, sear.
Adjectives
  • insensible, unconscious
  • impassive, impassible
  • blind to, deaf to, dead to
  • unsusceptible, insusceptible
  • unimpressionable, unimpressible
  • passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless
  • unfeeling, unmoral. apathetic
  • leuco-, phlegmatic
  • dull, frigid
  • cold blooded, cold hearted
  • cold as charity
  • flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific
  • sleepy etc. (inactive) Inactivity
  • languid, half-hearted, tame
  • numbed
  • comatose
  • anaesthetic etc. Physical Insensibility
  • stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned
  • palsy-stricken. indifferent, lukewarm
  • careless, mindless, regardless
  • inattentive etc. Inattention
  • neglectful etc. Neglect
  • disregarding. unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant
  • unambitious etc. Indifference. unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck
  • unblushing etc. (shameless) [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence
  • unanimated
  • vegetative. callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious
  • hardened
  • inured, casehardened
  • steeled against, proof against
  • imperturbable etc. (inexcitable) [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability
  • unfelt.
Adverbs
  • insensibly etc. adj.
  • without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed
  • in cold blood
  • with dry eyes, with withers unwrung.
Phrases
  • never mind
  • it is of no consequence etc. (unimportant) Unimportance
  • it cannot be helped
  • nothing coming amiss
  • it is all the same to, it is all one to.