insensitiveness
Lack of feeling
Insensitiveness is the quality of being unaware of or indifferent to others' feelings, or of lacking physical sensitivity.
The word is rare—insensitivity serves the same purpose and appears far more often: His insensitivity to her grief was appalling.
Loss of sensation
- deadenedMade less intense
- anesthetizedMade numb for surgery
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- dulledMade less sharp
blunted · impervious · unreactive · unresponsive · tolerant · resistant · hardened · inured
Lacking any awareness
- unawareLacking knowledge of something
- blindLacking the sense of sight
- deafUnable to hear
- imperceptiveFailing to notice things
unperceptive · unseeing · unhearing · inattentive · unobservant · unnoticing · heedless · unmindful
Cruelly insensitive to others
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- heartlessLacking pity or mercy
- unsympatheticWithout pity or understanding
- unempatheticLacking emotional understanding
cold-hearted · hard-hearted · uncompassionate · uncaring · unmoved · pitiless · merciless · ruthless
Lacking interest or concern
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- aloofEmotionally withdrawn, uninviting
- dispassionateFree from emotional involvement
- detachedApart or uninvolved
distant · remote · withdrawn · uninvolved · unconcerned · uninterested · disengaged · impassive
numbness
Loss of sensation
- deadenedMade less intense
- anesthetizedMade numb for surgery
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
dulled · blunted · impervious · unreactive · unresponsive · tolerant · resistant · hardened · inured · acclimatized
oblivious
Lacking any awareness
imperceptive · unperceptive · unseeing · unhearing · inattentive · unobservant · unnoticing · heedless · unmindful · unconscious
callous
Cruelly insensitive to others
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- heartlessLacking pity or mercy
- unsympatheticWithout pity or understanding
unempathetic · cold-hearted · hard-hearted · uncompassionate · uncaring · unmoved · pitiless · merciless · ruthless · cruel
indifferent
Lacking interest or concern
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- aloofEmotionally withdrawn, uninviting
- dispassionateFree from emotional involvement
detached · distant · remote · withdrawn · uninvolved · unconcerned · uninterested · disengaged · impassive · stoic
insensitivenesssensitivity
Responsiveness to stimuli
sensitiveness · compassion · empathy · sensibility · responsiveness
insensitivenessawareness
State of perceiving reality
perceptiveness · attentiveness · acuity · alertness · mindfulness
sense, sensitive, sensation, sensible, sensitivity, senseless, insensitive, sensory, sensibly