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  • adjective Devoid of sensation.

Etymologies

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sensation +‎ -less

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Examples

  • A swelling, slow and sensationless at first, under his right arm - pit, had become a mild and unceasing pain.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • He wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and was dimly aware of the area of the numbness that bordered the centre that was sensationless between his eyebrows, as he said:

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • He touched his finger to his sensationless forehead, then smelled it and recognized the burnt flesh he had not felt burning.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • I fumbled with the sensationless protuberances on my hand and managed to pop the button from my shirt pocket, lay hands on my spectacles, nearly dropping them to destruction twice, and finally draped them crookedly across my nose.

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

  • There was an inescapable feeling of equilibrium, of everything and everyone being held in silent, sensationless suspension.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • I got to thinking of my cramped, love-starved, sensationless existence at Microsoft-and I got so pissed off.

    Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

  • Even in the sensationless undertime, the odour of death clogged my nostrils.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • "A sensationless body," Mrs. Eddy says, is the ultimate hope of

    McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

  • With a "sensationless body" for the goal of existence, the savage was certainly much higher in "the scale of being" than the nations of modern

    McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

  • He wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and was dimly aware of the area of the numbness that bordered the centre that was sensationless between his eyebrows, as he said:

    Chapter 15 1917

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