INSENSITIVITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Synonyms:

insensitiveness; insensitivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)

Derivation:

insensitive (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive)