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insensitive Adjective unaware of or ignoring other people's feelings insensitivity n
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insensitive adjective unfeeling, indifferent, unconcerned, uncaring, tough, hardened, callous, crass, unresponsive, thick-skinned, obtuse, tactless, imperceptive, unsusceptible << OPPOSITE sensitive >> insensitive to unaffected by, immune to, impervious to, dead to, unmoved by, proof against Translations |
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The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal. It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. How indeed, could she conceive anything far outside her own experience, a woman with a commonplace face like hers, a little round red face, upon which trivial duties and trivial spites had drawn lines, whose weak blue eyes saw without intensity or individuality, whose features were blurred, insensitive, and callous? |
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