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| - | *For insensitively as a term with regards to emotional or medical sensitivity, see [[Sensitivity (human)|Sensitivity]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | + | *For insensitively as a term with regards to emotional or medical sensitivity, see [[Sensitivity (human)|Sensitivity]]. |
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| ==Adjective== | ==Adjective== | ||
| '''insensitive''' | '''insensitive''' | ||
| - | # not having normal physical [[feeling]] | + | # not having normal physical [[feeling]], [[jaded]], [[cynical]], [[barbarian]]. |
| #*'''1897,''' Bram Stoker, ''Dracula'' | #*'''1897,''' Bram Stoker, ''Dracula'' | ||
| #*: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. | #*: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. | ||
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| #*'''1895,''' Grant Allen, ''The British Barbarians'' | #*'''1895,''' Grant Allen, ''The British Barbarians'' | ||
| #*:Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very '''insensitive''' man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further. | #*:Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very '''insensitive''' man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further. | ||
| - | #*'''1994,''' Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song) | + | {{GFDL}} |
| - | #*:Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be '''insensitive''' | + | |
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- For insensitively as a term with regards to emotional or medical sensitivity, see Sensitivity.
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Adjective
insensitive
- not having normal physical feeling, jaded, cynical, barbarian.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- 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.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
- Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
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