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Definition of Insensitivity
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 Insensitivity
1. Noun. The condition of being insensitive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insensitivity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensitivity
Literary usage of Insensitivity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Hundred and Seventeenth Round Table on Transport Economics by Ecmt, ECMT Staff, (Bruxelles) Economic Research Centre, SourceOECD (Online service), economics Round table on transport, Economic Research Centre (2001)
"insensitivity to scope or scale as well as to payment schedules, ... Recently the
WTP for health protection and its insensitivity to scale was also ..."
2. Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment: Recent Developments by David William Pearce, Giles Atkinson, Susana Mourato (2006)
"Risk insensitivity in stated preference studies Past evidence has indicated that
respondent WTP, in stated preference surveys, might be insufficiently ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"Thus the insensitivity to pain of the sympathetic nerve as tested in the experiments
of Majendie was assumed to establish the insensitivity of the ..."
4. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"The insensitivity of mixtures ol trinitrotoluene and ammonium nitrate is so great
... [The] insensitivity of pressed trinitrotoluene, however, caused great ..."
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