insensible
adjective/ɪnˈsensəbl/
/ɪnˈsensəbl/
(formal)- [not before noun] insensible (to something) unable to feel something or react to it
- insensible to pain/cold
- [not before noun] insensible (of something) not aware of a situation or of something that might happen synonym unaware
- They were not insensible of the risks.
- unconscious as the result of injury, illness, etc.
- He was beaten till nearly insensible.
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Word Originlate 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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