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numbness

noun

1 numbness

Partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction.

Roget 381: numbness etc. (physical insensibility) 376; anaesthesia; pins and needles.   

Roget 383: cold, coldness etc. adj.; frigidity, inclemency, fresco.    winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla; wind-chill factor.    ... show more

Polish: odrętwienie, torpor

2 numbness

The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.

synonyms: apathy, indifference, spiritlessness.

Roget 823: insensibility, insensibleness; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae [Lat.]; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, ... show more

Dutch: apathie
Polish: indyferentyzm


Moby thesaurus: acedia, aloofness, analgesia, anesthesia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, callousness, comatoseness, deadness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dullness, electronarcosis, heartlessness, hebetude ... show more.

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