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say it: NUHM-nuhs
numbness is a noun meaning "partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction". It carries 2 recorded senses.
partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction
the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for numbness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.