Meanings
comparative more unsensible · superlative most unsensible
- That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
There is no breeze, no slightest shift of air-particles; yet down the gorge comes this cloud,--a cloud unsensible except to nostrils,--eddying as if swirling around the edges of leaves, riding on the air as gently as the low, distant crooning of great, sleepy jungle doves.
1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle - Out of one's senses; unconscious.
Origin
- Middle Englishunsensible
- Englishunsensible
From Middle English unsensible, equivalent to un- + sensible.
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