insensitiveness

“I had already been worried by what seemed to me evidence of insensitiveness and bad taste.”

"From 1947 on, I realised more and more how little Emily Hale and I had in common," he went on, accusing her of "insensitiveness and bad taste".

This was most noticeable throughout captivity, and, like Livingstone’s famous insensitiveness in the grip of the lion, it was a cheery feature of an otherwise unpleasant experience.

Then he thought of his own headlong folly, his blank insensitiveness, his cold ingratitude, and, last of all, of his blundering passion and mad wrath.

But be sure the terrors of the sea did not stun the ancients into indifference to its beauty any more than the terrors of tragedy stupefy you or me into insensitiveness.