Roget's Thesaurus

#376. Physical Insensibility

Nouns

insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness etc. adj.; palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia [Med.], anaesthesia; sleep etc. 823; hemiplegia, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma. anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.

Verbs

be insensible etc. adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide. render insensible etc. adj.; anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform etc. n.; stupefy, stun.

Adjectives

insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.