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Coma :: Coma (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

Iron :: Iron (n.) Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.;.

Stone :: Stone (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone..

Indurate :: Indurate (v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

Insensibility :: Insensibility (n.) The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates..

Feeling :: Feeling (a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs..

Anaesthetic :: Anaesthetic (n.) That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc..

Perception :: Perception (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility..

Anaesthesia :: Anaesthesia (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.

Hyperaesthesia :: Hyperaesthesia (n.) A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it..

Diaphemetric :: Diaphemetric (a.) Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses..

Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor..

Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

Obtuse :: Obtuse (superl.) Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses..

Feeling :: Feeling (n.) The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling..

Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..

Stupefy :: Stupefy (v. t.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural..

Esthesiometer :: Esthesiometer (n.) An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered..

Aridity :: Aridity (n.) Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.

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