0 the state of being unconscious:
She lay in a state of insensibility until ten o'clock, when she took her last breath.
He was beaten into insensibility and then dropped in the canal.
The anaesthetic injection will cause unconsciousness as well as insensibility to pain.
Both parents had an insensibility to the welfare of their offspring.
He was furious with her for her insensibility which bordered on cruelty.
The insensibility of the results to the used efforts of stabilization has been verified.
Frequently the self-promotion of condescension is accidental, emphasizing even further the insensibility of the superior.
Victorian fiction stages countless scenes where acts of good-will fail, due sometimes to the insensibility of those who have and sometimes to the viciousness of those who want.
Yet these signs of sympathy are belated and will go unanswered thanks to the protagonist's ultimate insensibility: in the final verses she enumerates her silence, blindness and deafness in death.
For broilers, it recommends a minimum, average stunning current of 105 milliamperes per bird to produce an adequate period of insensibility.
