4. Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless. [Obs.]

If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be

quashed.

Sir M. Hale.

Syn. -- Imperceptible; imperceivable; dull; stupid; torpid; numb;

unfeeling; apathetic; stoical; impassive; indifferent; unsusceptible;

hard; callous.

In*sen"si*ble*ness, n. Insensibility. Bp. Hall.

In*sen"si*bly, adv. In a manner not to be felt or perceived;

imperceptibly; gradually.

The hills rise insensibly.

Addison.

In*sen"si*tive (?), a. Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting

acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

In*sen"su*ous (?), a. [Pref. in- not + sensuous.] Not sensuous; not

pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses.

That intermediate door Betwixt the different planes of sensuous

form And form insensuous.

Mrs. Browning.

In*sen"ti*ent (?), a. Not sentient; not having perception, or the power

of perception.

The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance.

Reid.

But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose,

because it is insentient.

Sir W. Hamilton.

In*sep`a*ra*bil"i*ty (?), n. [L. inseparabilitas: cf. F.

inséparabilité.] The quality or state of being inseparable;

inseparableness. Locke.

In*sep"a*ra*ble (?), a. [L. inseparabilis: cf. F. inséparable. See In-

, and Separable.]

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