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comparative more insensitive, superlative most insensitive
Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate examples
Not expressing normal physical feeling; quotations examples
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library
Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic quotations examples
Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive.
1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)