S vs Insensible - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Unable to be perceived by the senses.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Dryden
Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
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.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective insensible is
unable to be perceived by the senses.s
Translingual
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}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.
citation, passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible , gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
- 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...