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Definition of Insensitiveness
1. Noun. The inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment.
Specialized synonyms: Crassitude, Crassness, Tin Ear, Callosity, Callousness, Hardness, Insensibility, Unfeelingness, Unperceptiveness, Unkindness
Generic synonyms: Inability, Unfitness
Derivative terms: Insensitive, Insensitive
Antonyms: Sensitiveness, Sensitivity
Definition of Insensitiveness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensitiveness
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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