unsensibleness

English

Etymology

From unsensible +‎ -ness.

Noun

unsensibleness (uncountable)

(obsolete) Insensibility; lack of feeling.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  , II.12:
  Crantor had great reason to withstand the unsensiblenesse [translating indolence] of Epicurus, if it were so deeply rooted, that the approaching and birth of evils might gainsay it.

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