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insensuous

insensuous adjective: not sensuous; not pertaining to or detectable to the senses.

Adjective

insensuous (comparative more insensuous, superlative most insensuous)

  1. Not sensuous; not pertaining to or detectable to the senses.
    • That intermediate door / Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form / And form insensuous.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC

Forms of insensuous

comparativemore insensuous
superlativemost insensuous

Origin of insensuous

From in- + sensuous.

Questions about insensuous

What does insensuous mean?
Insensuous means not sensuous; not pertaining to or detectable to the senses.
What part of speech is insensuous?
Insensuous is an adjective.

Words near insensuous in the dictionary

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

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