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Webster 1913 Edition


Numbness

Numb′ness

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Noun.
The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

Webster 1828 Edition


Numbness

NUMBNESS

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Noun.
Torpor; that state of a living body in which it has not the power of feeling or motion, as when paralytc or chilled by cold.

Definition 2024


numbness

numbness

English

Noun

numbness (countable and uncountable, plural numbnesses)

  1. Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation.
  2. Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion.

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