Insensible vs Inhuman - What's the difference?
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Unable to be perceived by the senses.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Dryden
Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
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Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
* Sir M. Hale
Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
* Dryden
* Sir H. Wotton
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 138
Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
Insensible is a related term of inhuman.
As adjectives the difference between insensible and inhuman
is that insensible is unable to be perceived by the senses while inhuman is of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.insensible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm.
- They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.
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- If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed.
- Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.
- Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness.
- In spite of her deep-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection...