Insensitive

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For insensitively as a term with regards to emotional or medical sensitivity, see Sensitivity.

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.
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.

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