insensibleness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From insensible + -ness.
Noun[edit]
insensibleness (uncountable)
- Insensibility.
- 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter LI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 150:
- O thou that art the great Phyſitian in Heaven, firſt cure our inſenſibleneſs; make thou us as ſick of our ſins, as vve have made our ſelves ſick by ſin, and then ſpeak the vvord, and vve ſhall be vvhole.