Insensible vs Senseless - What's the Difference?
Definition as Adjective
- incapable of physical sensation
- barely able to be perceived
- unresponsive to stimulation
- unaware of or indifferent to
Definition as Adjective
- unresponsive to stimulation
- not marked by the use of reason
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Examples
- "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"
- "the transition was almost indiscernible"; "an almost insensible change"
- "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"
- "insensible to the suffering around him"
- "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"
- "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act"
- "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"