insensitivity

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ sensitivity.

Noun

insensitivity (usually uncountable, plural insensitivities)

1. The condition of being insensitive
   • 1979 December 22, Gia Berkman, “Some Friction”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 4:

     To make matters worse, you did not publish the news note until 5 days before the conference — even though we had submitted it enough in advance to have been included in the previous weeks' paper. This showed a great insensitivity to the fact that lesbians with children are often not very mobile or flexible...We need that kind of advance notice in order to plan an all-day conference on a Saturday!

Antonyms

• sensitivity

Derived terms

• androgen insensitivity syndrome
• complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
• congenital insensitivity to pain

 

Translations

condition of being insensitive

• Catalan: insensibilitat f
• Finnish: tunteettomuus (fi), tunnottomuus (fi); epäherkkyys (photography)
• French: insensibilité (fr) f
• German: Gefühllosigkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: érzéketlenség (hu)
• Japanese: 無神経 (ja) (mushinkei), 鈍感 (ja) (donkan)
• Romanian: insensibilitate (ro) f, nesensibilitate f (rare)
• Spanish: insensibilidad (es) f
• Swedish: okänslighet (sv) c