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in-susceptibility
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insusceptibility
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resistance |
| Synonyms: | battle, blocking, check, combat, contention, counteraction, cover, defiance, detention, fight, friction, halting, hindrance, holding, immunity, impedance, impediment, impeding, imperviousness, intransigence, obstruction, parrying, protecting, protection, rebuff, refusal, retardation, safeguard, screen, shield, stand, striking back, struggle, support, unsusceptibility, warding off, watch, withstanding |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resistance |
| Synonyms: | immunity, imperviousness, insusceptibility, unsusceptibility |
| Main Entry: | imperviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resistance |
| Synonyms: | battle, blocking, check, combat, contention, counteraction, cover, defiance, detention, fight, friction, halting, hindrance, holding, immunity, impedance, impediment, impeding, insusceptibility, intransigence, obstruction, parrying, protecting, protection, rebuff, refusal, retardation, safeguard, screen, shield, stand, striking back, struggle, support, unsusceptibility, warding off, watch, withstanding |
| Main Entry: | unsusceptibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resistance |
| Synonyms: | blocking, check, immunity, imperviousness, insusceptibility, protection, safeguard, screen, shield |
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| Concept: | Insensibility. |
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-nouns
insensibility, insensibleness; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae; impassiblity, impassiblenesss; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness., cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid; stoicism, impertubation (inexcitability); nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance (indifference); recklessness; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness., torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness (physical insensibility)., neutrality; quietism, vegetation.
-verbs
be insensible; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility; not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for; have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil admirari; not care a straw (unimportance) for; disregard (neglect); set at naught (make light of); turn a deaf ear to (inattention); vegetate., render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform; 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 (inactive); lanquid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, palsy-stricken., indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive; neglectful; disregarding.
-adverbs
insensibly; aequo animo; without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed; in cold blood; with dry eyes, with withers unwrung.
-phrases
never mind; macht nichts [German], it is of no consequence (unimportant) [more]; it cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all the same to, it is all one
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| Antonyms: | sensibility |
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