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All numbness synonyms

numb
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noun numbness

  • deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
  • unresponsiveness — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • apathy — You can use apathy to talk about someone's state of mind if you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about anything.
  • paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
  • anaesthesia — Anaesthesia is the use of anaesthetics in medicine and surgery.
  • anesthesia — a partial or total loss of the sense of pain, temperature, touch, etc., produced by disease
  • dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
  • insensibility — incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
  • insensitivity — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
  • emotionlessness — The property of being emotionless.
  • impassiveness — The state of being impassive.
  • coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
  • detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
  • shock — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
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