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Insensibility

The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

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Dullness 76% connected

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightn…

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Insensible 74% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Insensible 74% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Unfeeling 74% connected

Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.

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Unfeeling 74% connected

Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.

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Callosity 92% connected

A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or frictio…

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Hardness 92% connected

The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

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Aesthesia 94% connected

Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.

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Aesthesia 94% connected

Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.

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Image noun · 86% connection

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

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Persona noun · 86% connection

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

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Quality noun · 85% connection

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained" - Shakespeare

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Water noun · 85% connection

a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water"

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Wetland noun · 85% connection

a low area where the land is saturated with water

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Convention noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Conventionalism noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Conventionality noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Fertility noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Prolificacy noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Rankness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Richness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Ability noun · 84% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 84% connection

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…

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Adequacy noun · 84% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Bad noun · 84% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Believability noun · 84% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Fenland noun · 84% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Accidie noun · 78% connection

Sloth; torpor.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Adams-Stokes syndrome noun · 78% connection

recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Aestivate verb · 78% connection

To pass the summer in a state of torpor.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Affinity noun · 78% connection

That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form c…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Anaesthetic adjective · 78% connection

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anaesthetic agents.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Anaesthetize verb · 78% connection

To render insensible by an anaesthetic.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Atrioventricular block noun · 78% connection

recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Awaken verb · 78% connection

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Benumbment noun · 78% connection

Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Blank adjective · 78% connection

Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Callous adjective · 78% connection

Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Caseharden verb · 78% connection

To render insensible to good influences.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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Coma noun · 78% connection

a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: insensible, want, sensibility, torpor, unconsciousness.
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