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insensible
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[ɪnˈsɛnsɪbl], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- without one's mental faculties, typically as a result of injury or intoxication; unconscious
(e.g: they knocked each other insensible with their fists)
- unaware of or indifferent to
(e.g: they slept on, insensible to the headlight beams)
- too small or gradual to be perceived; inappreciable
(e.g: varying by insensible degrees)
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Origin
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late Middle English (also in the senses ‘unable to be perceived’ and ‘incapable of physical sensation’): partly from Old French insensible (from Latin insensibilis, from in- ‘not’ + sensibilis, from sensus ‘sense’), partly from in- ‘not’ + sensible
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