insensitiveness

1. 1.

   the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

   Synonymsinsensitivity

   Antonymssensitiveness

   Broaderinability

   Narrowercrassnesstin earunfeelingnessunperceptivenessunkindness

Other forms of insensitiveness

plural

insensitivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about insensitiveness

What does insensitiveness mean?

insensitiveness means "the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment".

How many syllables are in insensitiveness?

insensitiveness has 6 syllables: in-sen-si-ti-ve-ness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for insensitiveness?

Close synonyms include insensitivity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of insensitiveness?

The recorded antonyms are sensitiveness.

Is insensitiveness a common word?

insensitiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.