| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class III. Words Relating to Matter | | Section III. Organic Matter | | 2. Sensation |
| 1. Sensation in general |
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| 376. Physical Insensibility. |
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| NOUN: | INSENSIBILITY, physical insensibility; obtuseness &c. adj.; palsy, paralysis, anæsthesia or anesthesia, narcosis, narcotization, hypnosis, stupor, coma; twilight sleep, dämmerschlaf [Ger.]; sleep (inactivity) [See Inactivity]; moral insensibility [See Insensibility]; hemiplegia, motor paralysis.
ANÆSTHETIC or anesthetic, anæsthetic agent; local -, general- anæsthetic; opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; cocaine, novocain; refrigeration.
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| VERB: | BE INSENSIBLE &c. adj.; have a -thick skin, - rhinoceros hide.
RENDER INSENSIBLE &c. adj.; blunt, cloy, satiate, pall, obtund, benumb, numb, deaden, freeze, paralyze; anæsthetize or anesthetize, put under the influence of chloroform &c. n.; put to sleep, hypnotize, stupefy, stun.
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| ADJECTIVE: | INSENSIBLE, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case-hardened; proof; obtuse, dull; anæsthetic or anesthetic; paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.
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| QUOTATION: | A dreary numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.—Keats |
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