physical insensibility

Roget category 376

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#376. Physical Insensibility

noun

insensibility, physical insensibility — obtuseness etc. adj. — palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia [Med.], anaesthesia — sleep etc. 823 — hemiplegia^†, motor paralysis — vegetable state — coma.
anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral — nitrous oxide, laughing gas — exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen — refrigeration.

verb

be insensible etc. adj. — have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide.
render insensible etc. adj. — anaesthetize^†, blunt, pall, obtund^†, benumb, paralyze — put under the influence of chloroform etc. n. — stupefy, stun.

adjective

insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient^†, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous — hard, hardened — case hardened — proof, obtuse, dull — anaesthetic — comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

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