Meanings
plural insensitivities
- uncountableusuallyThe condition of being insensitive
1 more example
To make matters worse, you did not publish the news note until 5 days before the conference — even though we had submitted it enough in advance to have been included in the previous weeks' paper. This showed a great insensitivity to the fact that lesbians with children are often not very mobile or flexible...We need that kind of advance notice in order to plan an all-day conference on a Saturday!
1979 December 22, Gia Berkman, “Some Friction”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 4
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Englishsensitivity
- Englishinsensitivity
From in- + sensitivity.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan insensibilitat
- insensibilitatcondition of being insensitive
Finnish tunteettomuus, tunnottomuus
- tunteettomuuscondition of being insensitive
- tunnottomuuscondition of being insensitive
- epäherkkyyscondition of being insensitive
French insensibilité
- insensibilitécondition of being insensitive
German Gefühllosigkeit
- Gefühllosigkeitcondition of being insensitive
Hindi संवेदनहीनता
- संवेदनहीनता (samvednahīntā)condition of being insensitive
Hungarian érzéketlenség
- érzéketlenségcondition of being insensitive
Japanese 無神経, 鈍感
- 無神経 (mushinkei)condition of being insensitive
- 鈍感 (donkan)condition of being insensitive
Romanian insensibilitate, nesensibilitate
- insensibilitatecondition of being insensitive
- nesensibilitatecondition of being insensitive
Spanish insensibilidad
- insensibilidadcondition of being insensitive
Swedish okänslighet
- okänslighetcondition of being insensitive
Cite this entry
insensitivity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insensitivity
“insensitivity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insensitivity. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insensitivity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insensitivity.
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