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UK
/ɪnsˌɛnsɪtˈɪvɪti/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˌsɛnsəˈtɪvəti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˌsɛnsəˈtɪvəti/ ]
NOUN
- the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
How To Use insensitivity In A Sentence
- For instance, the apparent lack of sensitivity of GLRs to amino acids could reflect the orientation of the proteins within the heterologous host membrane, rather than insensitivity to ligands.
- This insensitivity must include disregarding the garbage that is thrown anywhere and everywhere on many a city street.
- Our challenge is to be cautious not to take on a tone of self-righteousness and insensitivity to those whose policies we critique.
- The officers have shown insensitivity towards the prisoners, who all share a common faith.
- Incensed by his insensitivity and spurred onward by the events earlier in the evening, Lucy's eyes smoldered with resentment.
- Their insensitivity is matched only by their overriding self-belief.
- States of ‘altered consciousness’, hypnosis, autohypnosis, euphoria, and psychosomatic conditions such as hysteria, may be accompanied by insensitivity to pain.
- Tom freely acknowledged this just as Terry acknowledged his earlier insensitivity.
- He never ceased to surprise her with his insensitivity.
- A child who repeatedly sees violence or insensitivity towards himself, other human beings or animals becomes desensitized himself.