Unsensible vs Insensible - What's the difference?
unsensible | insensible |
Not sensible; silly, foolish.
*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Sheila Kaye-Smith, title=Joanna Godden, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Hear, hear," and Joanna passed out of the conversation, for who was going to waste time either taking up or taking down a silly, tedious, foreign, unsensible notion like ploughing grass?... }}
That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=William Beebe, title=Edge of the Jungle, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There is no breeze, no slightest shift of air-particles; yet down the gorge comes this cloud,--a cloud unsensible except to nostrils,--eddying as if swirling around the edges of leaves, riding on the air as gently as the low, distant crooning of great, sleepy jungle doves. }}
Out of one's senses; unconscious.
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 adjectives the difference between unsensible and insensible
is that unsensible is not sensible; silly, foolish while insensible is unable to be perceived by the senses.unsensible
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(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...