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insensibility

noun

  1. lack of ability to exercise care and have appropriate judgment
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Old French insensibilité, from Late Latin insensibilitas.

  1. The property of being insensible.

    What a deal of grief, care, and other harmful excitement does a healthy dulness and cheerful insensibility avoid!

    When I recovered I found myself lying on a clean, comfortable bed, while there bent over me a physician and an elderly woman. I learned that I had been found early in the morning in the rear of the house in a state of insensibility, and that the owner of the place […] had caused me to be brought in and placed on the bed.