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English
Etymology
in- + sensitive
Pronunciation
Adjective
insensitive (comparative more insensitive, superlative most insensitive)
- Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate
- Not expressing normal physical feeling;
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
- Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
- Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
- Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive.
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Translations
not having normal physical feeling
not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic
- Bulgarian: безчувствен (bg) (bezčuvstven)
- Catalan: insensible (ca)
- Finnish: tunteeton (fi), kylmä (fi)
- French: insensible (fr)
- Hungarian: érzéketlen (hu), tapintatlan (hu)
- Japanese: 平気な (ja) (heiki na), 無神経な (ja) (mushinkei na), 鈍感な (ja) (donkan na)
- Macedonian: бе́счувствен (bésčuvstven)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ufølsom
- Plautdietsch: onemfintlich
- Polish: bezduszny (pl), nieczuły (pl)
- Portuguese: insensível (pt)
- Spanish: insensible (es)
- Swedish: okänslig (sv), känslolös (sv)
- Turkish: anlayışsız (tr), duygusuz (tr), katı (tr), katı yürekli (tr)
- Ukrainian: нечутли́вий (nečutlývyj), нечу́лий (nečúlyj), нечу́йний (nečújnyj)
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