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Definition of numbness : The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

Synonyms:

stolidity, impassivity, loss of motion, unconcern, unemotionality, loss of sensation, phlegm, spiritlessness, paralysis

faintness, oblivion, senselessness, callousness, insentience, unfeelingness, stupor, coma, anesthesia, obliviousness, unconsciousness, deadness, insensibility, aloofness, dullness, swoon, sopor, trance, narcosis, insensitivity

desensitization, daze, stupefaction

impassiveness, composedness, staidness, placidity, serenity, reservation, easygoingness, self-composedness, neutrality, calmness, tranquility

emotionlessness, indifference, bluntness, passionlessness, passivity, insensitiveness, dispassion, heartlessness, stoniness, cold-bloodedness, hardheartedness, nonchalance, ruthlessness, detachment, objectiveness, toughness, coolness, apathy, hardness

Usage examples:

• After the first moment of numbness he recognised the arch on the right, where the road begins which leads down to Santa Scolastica, to Subiaco, to Rome; and on the left the path which rises toward the Sacro Speco. - "The Saint", Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer.
• From time to time he fell into deadness of all sensation, when he hoped that the worst of his suffering was over; but always it struggled up out of the numbness again, as insistent as before. - "Secret Bread", F. Tennyson Jesse.
• I was irritated, nettled, not at my inability to fathom the mystery at once, but at a species of mental numbness which prevented me from even conjecturing a plausible theory to account for the strange episode. - "The Paternoster Ruby", Charles Edmonds Walk.