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numbness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deadness |
| Synonyms: | anesthesia, apathy, dullness, insensibility, insensitivity, paralysis, stupefaction, stupor |
| Main Entry: | anesthesia/anaesthesia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | induced sleep; induced absence of feeling |
| Synonyms: | analgesia, insentience, numbness, stupor, unconsciousness |
| 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: | insensibility |
| 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: | anesthesia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleep |
| Synonyms: | asleep, insentience, numbness, put under, stupor, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | thick skin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to withstand |
| Synonyms: | apathy, armor, callousness, elephant skin, formidable defenses, hard shell, imperviousness, numbness, rhinoceros hide, thick hide, thick shell, unfeelingness |
| Main Entry: | pins and needles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tingling sensation |
| Synonyms: | deadness, formication, numbness, paraesthesia, paresthesia, prickling, sensation, tingle, tingling |
| 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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