Insensitive
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- For insensitively as a term with regards to emotional or medical sensitivity, see Sensitivity. [1] [Apr 2007]
Adjective
insensitive
- not having normal physical feeling, jaded, cynical.
- 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
