different between unemotional vs insensitive
unemotional
English
Etymology
un- +? emotional
Adjective
unemotional (comparative more unemotional, superlative most unemotional)
- Showing little or no feeling.
- An unemotional person
- Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.
Synonyms
- (showing little or no feeling): dispassionate; See: Thesaurus:alexithymic
Antonyms
- (showing little or no feeling): passionate
Translations
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insensitive
English
Etymology
in- +? sensitive
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?s?ns?t?v/
Adjective
insensitive (comparative more insensitive, superlative most insensitive)
- Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate
- Not expressing normal physical feeling;
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
- Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
- Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive.
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
Synonyms
- unaffected
- unsensitive
Antonyms
- sensitive
Derived terms
Translations
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