Definition of Insensitiveness

1. Noun. The inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment.


Definition of Insensitiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensitiveness

insensates
insense
insensed
insenses
insensibilities
insensibility
insensible
insensible(p)
insensible perspiration
insensible thirst
insensibleness
insensibly
insensing
insensitive
insensitively
insensitiveness (current term)
insensitivities
insensitivity
insensuous
insentience
insentiences
insentient
inseparabilities
inseparability
inseparable
inseparableness
inseparables
inseparably
inseparate
inseparately

Literary usage of Insensitiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"CHAPTER XIX ORTHOCHROMATIC AND THREE-COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY insensitiveness to yellow and ... If the insensitiveness of plates to yellow and red is sometimes ..."

2. A System of Applied Optics: Being a Complete System of Formulæ of the Second by H. Dennis Taylor (1906)
"_ ' _ p(p ~ } ) YTV insensitiveness and . . a **27u-+'l)" of no coma. ... insensitiveness ..."

3. Physiological Cruelty, Or, Fact V. Fancy: An Inquiry Into the Vivisection by Philanthropos (1883)
"... of Pain—Absence of this in animals— Examples—Amount of Pain in operations—Painlessness of convalescence—insensitiveness of brain substance—Example. ..."

4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"arise from this insensitiveness, which suggests a defect in Holmgren's test for ethnographic purposes, because ' a confusion of colors which in a European ..."

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