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insensitivity

insensitivity noun: the condition of being insensitive.

Noun

insensitivity (usually uncountable, plural insensitivities)

  1. (usually) The condition of being insensitive
    • To make matters worse, you did not publish the news note until 5 days before the conference — even though we had submitted it enough in advance to have been included in the previous weeks' paper. This showed a great insensitivity to the fact that lesbians with children are often not very mobile or...1979 December 22, Gia Berkman, “Some Friction”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 4

insensitivity meaning in Hindi and Urdu

insensitivity in Hindi

condition of being insensitive
संवेदनहीनता samvednahīntā

insensitivity in Urdu

بےحسی

Antonyms of insensitivity

Forms of insensitivity

pluralinsensitivities

Origin of insensitivity

From in- + sensitivity.

Words formed from insensitivity

Questions about insensitivity

What does insensitivity mean?
Insensitivity means the condition of being insensitive.
What is insensitivity in Hindi?
Insensitivity in Hindi is संवेदनहीनता (samvednahīntā). See Insensitivity meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is insensitivity?
Insensitivity is a noun.
What is the plural of insensitivity?
The plural of insensitivity is insensitivities.

Words near insensitivity in the dictionary

  1. insensing
  2. insensitive
  3. insensitively
  4. insensitiveness
  5. insensitivities
  6. insensitivity
  7. insensuous
  8. insent
  9. insentience
  10. insentient
  11. insentiently

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insensitivity (page history and authors); insensitivity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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