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They fall away, And languish with insensible decay.

Dryden.

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.]

1. Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined.

The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken.

Mure.

Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

D. Webster.

2. (Gram.) Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un- .

In*sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. Bp. Burnet.