Definition of Numbnesses

1. numbness [n] - See also: numbness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Numbnesses

numbers game
numbers games
numbers juggling
numbers needed to harm
numbers pool
numbers racket
numberwork
numbest
numbfish
numbfishes
numbing
numbingly
numbles
numbly
numbness
numbnesses (current term)
numbnuts
numbre
numbs
numbskull
numbskulled
numbskulls
numby
numchuck
numchucks
numdah
numdah rug
numdahs
numen
numerable

Literary usage of Numbnesses

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

1. The English Novel Before the Nineteenth Century: Excerpts from by Helen Sard Hughes, Annette Brown Hopkins (1915)
"She had told them, it was her opinion too, from some numbnesses which she called the forerunners of death, and from an increased inclination to doze. ..."

2. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"... and also in consequence of the contraction of its antagonist; as has been shewn before. PROP. XXVIII.—To examine how far the Phenomena of numbnesses, ..."

3. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody: an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1888)
"Use, employed as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, chronic glandular enlargements, lumbago, sciatica, etc. This embrocation must be used ..."

4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"Where such numbnesses, however, occur without pressure or any manifest cause, they well deserve watching and resisting by tonics or stimulants, ..."

5. Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases by Thomas Smith Clouston (1904)
"She had pains and numbnesses in her joints and her limbs, probably neurotic in origin. She ate well,—far more, she said, than she ever did before,—looked ..."

6. Some Account of London by Thomas Pennant (1813)
"I am told -that the searchers, who have frequent occasion to thrust their arms deep into the chests, often feel numbnesses and paralytic affections. ..."

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