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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

2. (n.) Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

Greek

2659. katanuxis -- stupefaction
... Transliteration: katanuxis Phonetic Spelling: (kat-an'-oox-is) Short Definition:
deep sleep, stupor Definition: deep sleep, torpor, insensibility, stupor. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2659.htm - 7k

Library

Whether Insensibility is a vice?
... OF THE VICES OPPOSED TO TEMPERANCE (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether insensibility is a vice?
Objection 1: It would seem that insensibility is not a vice. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether insensibility is a vice.htm

Insensibility
... CHAPTER XI. INSENSIBILITY. ... 6. Is not your insensibility one of your worst sins?
A hard-hearted child is one of the most hateful of beings. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bonar/gods way of peace/chapter xi insensibility.htm

Whether Treachery, Fraud, Falsehood, Perjury, Restlessness ...
... AND IN THE FIRST PLACE, OF COVETOUSNESS (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether treachery, fraud,
falsehood, perjury, restlessness, violence, and insensibility to mercy are ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether treachery fraud falsehood perjury.htm

The Patient Teacher, and the Slow Scholars
... these emotions. There is, first, His scholars' stolid insensibility, which
moves Him to anger, to astonishment, and to grief. 'Are ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/the patient teacher and the.htm

To those who Say that Souls Existed Before Bodies, or that Bodies ...
... that one soul passed through so many changes are really fitting for the chatter
of frogs or jackdaws, or the stupidity of fishes, or the insensibility of trees ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xxviii to those who say.htm

God Himself an Example of Patience.
... To us [9020] no human affectation of canine [9021] equanimity, modelled [9022] by
insensibility, furnishes the warrant for exercising patience; but the divine ...
/.../tertullian/of patience/chapter ii god himself an example.htm

Miracles no Remedy for Unbelief.
... the Israelites also; but I am speaking of men in general; and I say, that if the
Israelites had a common nature with us, surely that insensibility which they ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon vi miracles no remedy.htm

Titus ii. 5-Feb
... Some indeed it has in common with youth, but in addition it has [1485] a slowness,
a timidity, a forgetfulness, an insensibility, and an irritability. ...
/.../homily iv titus ii 5-feb.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... Not those who are sheltered from the shocks of life by a stupid insensibility; who
have, either by nature or art, the virtue of stocks and stones, and resent ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 22 upon our lords.htm

Letter xv. --Perfect Detachment.
... The proof and sign of the death of all that is external is a sort of indifference,
or rather of insensibility with regard to exterior goods, pleasures ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter xv perfect detachment.htm

Thesaurus

Insensibility (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor;
unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. ...
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Stone (290 Occurrences)
... He is there described as "cut out of the mountain." (see ROCK.). A "heart
of stone" denotes great insensibility (1 Samuel 25:37). ...
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Brass (168 Occurrences)
... It is a symbol of insensibility and obstinacy in sin (Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah
6:28; Ezek. 22:18), and of strength (Psalm 107:16; Micah 4:13). ...
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Understandings (2 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:18 with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which
is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no ...
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Insensate (1 Occurrence)

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Iron (104 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. 7. (n.) Like iron in hardness,
strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; ...
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Insensitive (1 Occurrence)

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Frost (9 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost. 4. (vi) Coldness
or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. ...
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Deep-seated (2 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:18 with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which
is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no ...
/d/deep-seated.htm - 7k

Myrrh (22 Occurrences)
... It was a custom of the Jews to give those who were condemned to death by
crucifixion "wine mingled with myrrh" to produce insensibility. ...
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Bible Concordance

Insensibility (1 Occurrence)

Ephesians 4:18 with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.
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Subtopics

Insensibility

Related Terms

Stone (290 Occurrences)

Brass (168 Occurrences)

Understandings (2 Occurrences)

Insensate (1 Occurrence)

Iron (104 Occurrences)

Insensitive (1 Occurrence)

Frost (9 Occurrences)

Deep-seated (2 Occurrences)

Myrrh (22 Occurrences)