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Adjective: insensible  in'sen-su-bul
  1. Incapable of physical sensation
    "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"
     
  2. Unresponsive to stimulation
    "he lay insensible where he had fallen";
    - senseless, out of it
     
  3. Unaware of or indifferent to
    "insensible to the suffering around him";
    - unaffected
     
  4. Barely able to be perceived
    "an almost insensible change";
    - indiscernible, undetectable

See also: anaesthetic [Brit, Cdn], anesthetic [N. Amer], asleep, benumbed, imperceptible, incognisant [Brit], incognizant, insensitive, numb, unaware, unconscious, unperceivable

Antonym: sensible

Encyclopedia: Insensible