Dryness, drought; dry land; a dry place, desert.

A condition of torpor, inertness, or apathy.

figurative. Absence of emotion, feeling, or fervour; lack of cordiality; coldness of feeling; distance of manner.

Mental stupefaction.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6 Cf. unsensible, adj.)

= insensibility, n. 3.

Insensibility.

A state or condition of emotional or spiritual numbness or dullness; lack of feeling or interest; apathy, indifference. Later chiefly in…

The attribute of being stolid; dull impassiveness; incapacity for feeling.

A state of mental or spiritual dullness or numbness; intellectual or emotional apathy or torpor. Later esp.: a dazed or distracted state associated…

Sluggishness, inertness, insensibility. Obsolete.

The state or condition of being unconscious or insentient; absence of or incapacity for physical or mental feeling; insensibility.

unnaturalness, want of natural affection.

Insensibility or benumbedness of body; stupor or torpor of mind.

Incapability of feeling or emotion, insensibility.

Mental or spiritual numbness or dullness; intellectual or emotional apathy or torpor; (also) the process or action of falling into such a state.

Torpid condition or quality; torpidity. transferred. Intellectual or spiritual lethargy; apathy, listlessness; dullness; indifference.

figurative.

Impassiveness.

The condition or state of being blunt or dull; dullness, bluntness, obtuseness, lethargy.

Lack of feeling or physical sensation. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. (With quot. 1652 cf. dry, adj. 15.)

The action of making or fact of being made blunt or dull; blunted or dulled condition.

The fact or condition of being stupefied; stupefaction.

The character of not answering or being responsive. Also const. to. Obsolete.

Lack of the sense of taste; figurative lack of relish or appreciation. Now rare.

The quality or condition of being insensate; want of feeling or sense.

The quality or condition of being impassive; want of feeling or emotion, insensibility, apathy.

Slowness of understanding, stupidity; insensitivity. Also (more generally): the quality of being obtuse.

‘Aridity, want of emotion or sensibility’ (Johnson).

torpidity, torpor.

figurative. Mental or spiritual barrenness; unproductiveness of results.

The quality or fact of being spiritless (in various senses).

Impassiveness, indifference. Obsolete.

Incapacity of mental feeling or emotion; incapability of being affected or moved; want of moral susceptibility; apathy, indifference.

Indolence of mind, indifference to what is calculated to move the feelings, or to excite interest or action.

The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6.)

= impassiveness, n.

Lack of feeling. Also, an instance of this.

Incapability of being moved or stirred to feeling.

Obtuseness.

A practical, pragmatic, or shrewd person; one who is unsentimental or ruthless. Cf. hard, adj. 3b.

The quality of being insensitive; want of sensitiveness.

The quality or condition of being impenetrable; incapability of being penetrated, entered, or pierced; inscrutability; unfathomableness…

The quality of being unreceptive; unreceptiveness.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6 Cf. unsusceptible, adj.)

wooden quality or style.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6; cf. unimpressionable, adj.)

the quality or state of being irresponsive.

= impassibility, n.

The quality of being irreceptive; incapacity to receive; unreceptiveness.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6; cf. unimpressible, adj.)

= apathy, n. 1.

Lack of emotional sensibility.

Detachment; alienation; incapacity to feel emotion.

Lack of sensitivity, insensitiveness; an instance of this.