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IN SENSIBILITY
| Main Entry: |
insensibility
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | analgesia, anesthesia, apathy, carus, coma, inactivity, indifference, insusceptibility, lethargy, narcoma, narcosis, numbness, stupefaction, stupor, torpor, trance, unconsciousness |
| Antonyms: | caring |
| Main Entry: | coma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | blackout, dullness, faint, hebetude, insensibility, lethargy, oblivion, sleep, slumber, somnolence, stupor, swoon, syncope, torpidity, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | alertness, consciousness, wakefulness |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | blackout, collapse, dizziness, grayout, insensibility, knockout, stupor, swoon, syncope, vertigo |
| Notes: | faint (verb) means to pass out from weakness or to lose consciousness - faint (adjective) means barely perceptible or lacking clarity or distinctness; feint (noun) means any distracting or deceptive maneuver - feint (verb) means to deceive by a mock action |
| Antonyms: | consciousness |
| Main Entry: | foolishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiocy, nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, mistake, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence, sense, seriousness, thoughtfulness, wiseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oblivion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental blankness |
| Synonyms: | Lethe, abeyance, amnesia, carelessness, disregard, forgetfulness, inadvertence, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, neglect, nirvana*, obliviousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, unmindfulness |
| Antonyms: | awareness, consciousness, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stupor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daze, unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | amazement, anesthesia, apathy, asphyxia, bewilderment, coma, dullness, fainting, hebetude, hypnosis, inertia, inertness, insensibility, languor, lassitude, lethargy, narcosis, numbness, petrifaction, sleep, slumber, somnolence, sopor, stupefaction, suspended animation, swoon, swooning, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | consciousness, sensibility |
| Main Entry: | trance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypnotic state |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, catalepsy, catatonia, coma, daze, dream, ecstasy, glaze, insensibility, muse, petrifaction, rapture, reverie, spell, study, stupor, transfixion, transfixture, unconsciousness |
| Antonyms: | consciousness |
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupidity |
| Synonyms: | insensibility, slowwittedness, stupidness |
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