0 the state of being unconscious: --
Both parents had an insensibility to the welfare of their offspring.
The anaesthetic injection will cause unconsciousness as well as insensibility to pain.
He was beaten into insensibility and then dropped in the canal.
She lay in a state of insensibility until ten o'clock, when she took her last breath.
The very air we breathe is contagious of insensibility and hardness.
An apathetic person may also exhibit insensibility or sluggishness.
Following a larger dose, all these symptoms continue to increase; and tremors, convulsions, vertigo, stupor, insensibility, and deprivation of muscular action appear.
With his usual engaging manner, he sought to lull us into a sufficient sense of insensibility so that we would not wish to contribute at length.
What is more critical is how quickly insensibility and death result and how much suffering, physical or mental, the fox experiences.
Even so, we concluded that insensibility and death will normally follow within a matter of seconds once the fox is caught.
This is based on scientific research, which shows that a minimum period of insensibility of 52 seconds is achieved by currents above this level.
We are to some extent being numbed into insensibility on the dollar question.
