numbinglyadv.
/ˈnʌmɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈnəmɪŋli/ In a numbing manner; so as to numb.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > in manner deadening emotions
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adverb] > rendering physically insensible
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1768 Woman of Honor III. 108 Hardly possible to conceive any thing more..numbingly stupid than their assembly-nights.
1857 Harper's Mag. Aug. 293 Some cheery jest broke out..to scare off an awful consciousness that, returning again and again, would creep numbingly over the senses during the intervals of silence.
1961 Econ. Jrnl. 71 847 The editorial preface is for the most part numbingly pedestrian.
1981 M. Cunningham & J. Laber Fannie Farmer Cookbook (1988) 10 You don't want them numbingly cold so you kill their flavour.
1990 J. Dunn Very Close Conspiracy i. 27 The attempts to teach them piano were numbingly tedious and doomed to failure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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