Insensitivity describes a state of not noticing or caring about others' feelings, or a lack of awareness and responsiveness to surrounding events. It can also refer to a lack of physical reaction or susceptibility.
Insensitivity refers to a lack of awareness or concern for others' feelings or a lack of attention to what is happening. It can also mean not being affected by physical changes.
1not noticing, or not taking the care to notice, other people’s feelings, and not realizing when they are upset or when something that you do will upset them: One insensitive official insisted on seeing her husband’s death certificate. an insensitive remarkinsensitive to She’s totally insensitive to Jack’s feelings.► see thesaurus at
unkind
2[not before noun] not paying attention to what is happening or to what people are saying, and therefore not changing your behaviour because of itinsensitive to Companies that are insensitive to global changes will lose sales. The service is insensitive to the needs of local people.3[not before noun] not affected by physical effects or changesinsensitive to insensitive to pain—insensitively adverb—insensitivity /ɪnˌsensəˈtɪvəti/ noun [uncountable]
WDF
insensitivity
[ɪnˌsensə'tɪvətɪ]
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NOUN30368
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不敏感(61%)，不灵敏性(20%)，昏迷(13%)，钝性(6%)
n.感觉迟钝；不灵敏性；昏迷
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