Definition for IN-SEN-SI-BIL'I-TY

IN-SEN-SI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from insensible.]

  1. Want of sensibility, or the power of feeling or perceiving. A frozen limb is in a state of insensibility, as is an animal body after death.
  2. Want of the power to be moved or affected; want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion and passion. Not to be moved at the distresses of others denotes an insensibility extremely unnatural.
  3. Dullness; stupidity; torpor.

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