INSENSIBILITY, INSENSIBLE
ADJECTIVES
► DEAD-HEARTED dead in feeling, callous, insensible → 1642
► DEDOLENT that feels sorrow no more; feeling no compunction; insensible, callous, hard-hearted → 1633 obs.
► DIRR insensible, destitute of feeling → Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DUMPISH dull, stupid, slow-witted; inactive, inert, spiritless; destitute of sensation; abstracted, insensible to outward things; dull, uninteresting → 1545 obs.
► STONY insensible, unfeeling, as if consisting of stone → c1230
► UNWITLESS senseless, insensible → a1225 obs.
NOUNS
► CALLOSITY a hardened state of mind or conscience; insensibility → 1658
► DEDOLENCE absence of grief or sorrow; insensibility, callousness, hard-heartedness → 1606 obs.
► DEDOLENCY absence of grief or sorrow; insensibility, callousness, hard-heartedness → a1617 obs.
► DUMPISHNESS sluggishness, inertness, insensibility → 1574 obs.
► OBTUSITY obtuseness; dullness, insensibility, stupidity → 1823
VERBS
► DATELESS insensible, as from a blow → 1854 Eng. dial.
► DOZEN to make insensible or powerless; to benumb → 1576 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SILLY to stun; to render silly or insensible → 1850
► UNSENSE to render senseless or insensible; to stun with a blow or fall → 1892 Eng. dial.