Definition of "insensible" []

• Imperceptible; inappreciable: an insensible change in temperature. (adjective)
• Very small or gradual: insensible movement. (adjective)
• Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious: lay insensible where he had fallen. (adjective)
• Not invested with sensation; inanimate: insensible clay. (adjective)
• Devoid of physical sensation or the power to react, as to pain or cold; numb. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "-- From these openings, there constantly passes a vapor, forming what we call the insensible perspiration."
• "No artery or important blood vessel was severed by any of the wounds inflicted upon him, but he was for a long time insensible from the loss of blood."
• "I have other deeds – The Baroness could hear no more; she was carried insensible from the apartment."