insensibility

At first the CO2 is emitted at a concentration that will render the birds unconscious — a phase of slaughter known as “the induction of insensibility.”

Put it this way: If you were at a party where you had to down a shot of whiskey every time DeSantis uttered the word “woke,” you were reduced to insensibility within ten or twenty minutes.

By the time another keeper entered the cage with a club and pounded the coyote “almost into insensibility,” Edwards’s right arm was in tatters, his little finger in need of amputation.

With Mr. Weston’s ball in view at least, there had been a great deal of insensibility to other things; but it was now too evident that she had not attained such a state of composure as could stand against the actual approach—new carriage, bell-ringing, and all.

The difficulty was great of driving his strange insensibility towards Harriet, from her mind, while he not only sat at her elbow, but was continually obtruding his happy countenance on her notice, and solicitously addressing her upon every occasion.