in a state of insensibility

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• insensibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of physical or emotional feeling Nouns 1. (physical numbness) insensibility, insensibleness; impassibility, impassibleness, impassivity; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness,… …   English dictionary for students

• Insensibility — In*sen si*bil i*ty, n. [Cf. F. insensibilit[ e].] [1913 Webster] 1. The state or quality of being insensible; lack of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. [1913 Webster] 2. Lack of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• insensibility — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, abulia, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, blindness, casualness, catatonic stupor, compulsion, crudity of intellect, deafness, dejection, depression, detachment, dim… …   Moby Thesaurus

• insensibility — in|sen|si|bil|i|ty [ınˌsensıˈbılıti] n [U] 1.) formal the state of being unconscious 2.) old fashioned inability to experience feelings such as love, sympathy, anger etc …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• insensibility — in·sen·si·bil·i·ty || ɪn‚sensÉ™ bɪlÉ™tɪ n. lack of physical sensation, state of being inanimate; insensitivity, coldness; stupidity, senselessness …   English contemporary dictionary

• insensibility — noun (U) 1 formal the state of being unconscious 2 old use inability to experience feelings such as love, sympathy, anger etc …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Anaesthesia —     Anæsthesia     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Anæsthesia     (From Greek a, privative, and aisthesis, feeling).     A term in medicine, and the allied sciences, signifying a state of insensibility to external impressions, consequent upon disease,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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• An Inhabitant of Carcosa — (also printed as part of “Can Such Things Be?” in the San Francisco Newsletter of December 25, 1886 [http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicr.html] ) is a short story by 19th century journalist, short story writer and occasional horror story… …   Wikipedia

• Anæsthesia — • A term in medicine, and the allied sciences, signifying a state of insensibility to external impressions, consequent upon disease, or induced artificially by the employment of certain substances known as anæsthetics, or by hypnotic suggestion… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Martha Jefferson — This article is about the wife of Thomas Jefferson. For the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, see Martha Jefferson Randolph. Martha Jefferson First Lady of Virginia In office June 1, 1779 – June 3, 1781 Preceded by Dorothea Henry Succeeded …   Wikipedia