Another word for numbness
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Noun
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- Loss or impairment of the ability to move a body part, usually as a result of damage to its nerve supply.
- Loss of sensation over a region of the body.
- Inability to move or function; total stoppage or severe impairment of activity:
- The property of being insensible.
- The condition of being insensitive
- The quality of being slow to understand things.
- The quality of being uninteresting.
- The lack of visual brilliance.
- The act or an instance of stupefying.
- The state of being stupefied.
- Great astonishment or consternation.
- Total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensibility, induced by disease, injury, acupuncture, or an anesthetic, such as chloroform or nitrous oxide.
- Local or general insensibility to pain with or without the loss of consciousness, induced by an anesthetic.
- A drug, administered for medical or surgical purposes, that induces partial or total loss of sensation and may be topical, local, regional, or general, depending on the method of administration and area of the body affected.
- The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
- A lack of elasticity.
- A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink.
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