Definition of "numbness" []

• Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation. (noun)
• Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion. (noun)

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• "Long enough continued it will even produce that permanent insensibility which we call numbness, and a little longer, muscular as well as sensational paralysis."
• "The one obvious difference between these two moments was that the former left me awash in numbness and confusion."
• "The numbness is described as if a part of the body is “asleep”."