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INSENSITIVITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does insensitivity mean?

• INSENSITIVITY (noun)
The noun INSENSITIVITY has 1 sense:

1. the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Familiarity information: INSENSITIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INSENSITIVITY (noun)

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Meaning:

The inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

insensitiveness; insensitivity

Hypernyms ("insensitivity" is a kind of...):

inability; unfitness (lacking the power to perform)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insensitivity"):

crassitude; crassness (the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement)

tin ear (insensitivity to the appropriateness or subtlety of language)

callosity; callousness; hardness; insensibility; unfeelingness (devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness)

unperceptiveness (the lack of insight and sympathetic understanding)

unkindness (lack of sympathy)

Antonym:

sensitivity (the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment)

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