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insensitivity

Pronunciation:  `ins`ensut'ivutee

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 Definition: [n]  the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
 
 Synonyms: insensitiveness
 
 Antonyms: sensitiveness, sensitivity
 
 See Also: callousness, crassitude, crassness, hardness, inability, insensibility, unfeelingness, unfitness, unkindness, unperceptiveness

 

 

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 Related Terms: analgesia, anesthesia, armor, bad manners, caddishness, callosity, callousness, callus, casualness, coarseness, coldbloodedness, coldheartedness, coldness, crudeness, crudity of intellect, deadness, discourteousness, discourtesy, dullness, electronarcosis, flintiness, formidable defenses, gross behavior, grossness, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, heartlessness, ill breeding, ill manners, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, imperviousness, impoliteness, imprudence, incivility, inconsiderateness, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, induration, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insentience, inurbanity, inuredness, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, loutishness, mannerlessness, narcosis, narcotization, numbness, obduracy, obdurateness, obtuseness, offensiveness, Philistinism, pins and needles, pitilessness, promiscuity, promiscuousness, rhinoceros hide, rudeness, stoniness, syncretism, tactlessness, thick skin, uncourtliness, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unmercifulness, unmeticulousness, unnaturalness, unparticularness, unperceptiveness, unpoliteness, unpreciseness, unresponsiveness, unselectiveness, unsolicitousness, untactfulness, vulgarity
 

 

 



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