Synonyms for numbness
numb·ness

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1. numbnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   hypesthesia

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1. numbness

   Synonyms:
   coldness, deadness, hardness, insensibility, unconsciousness

   Antonyms:
   feeling, impressibility, sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility

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1. numbness

   Synonyms:
   hebetude, callousness, insensibility

   Antonyms:
   acuteness, sensibility, liveliness, sensitiveness

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1. numbnessnoun

   partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction

   Synonyms:
   indifference, spiritlessness, apathy

2. apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessnessnoun

   the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

   Synonyms:
   phlegm, indifference, impassivity, nonchalance, spiritlessness, apathy, unconcern, emotionlessness, impassiveness, stolidity, unemotionality

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1. • Passivity
   • Symptom

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1. numbnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   torpor, insensibility, deadness, paralysis, palsy

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1. numbnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   insensibility

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1. List of paraphrases for "numbness":

   dizziness

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1. Rex Hickman:

   There’s a numbness that hits you first. You know, kind of like you go into crisis mode. You think about what you can do, what you can’t do, the real pain is going to sink in over time.

2. Jeff Melvoin:

   First I thought it was numbness, shock. The inability to believe that a just God could allow someone to destroy a gold mine of prehistoric knowledge for a year's worth of Salisbury steak...Life is a mystery. One man's life- altering experience is another man's tenderloin.

3. Andrew Myatt:

   When they came home, many of the fittest and best trained warriors we've ever had were not the same; headaches, numbness, dizziness, cancer. My son Beau was one of them.

4. President Biden:

   They [service members] come home many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin, one of those soldiers was my son, Maj. Beau Biden. I don't know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near, that his hooch [barracks] was there in Iraq, and before that Kosovo, is the cause of his brain cancer and the disease of so many other troops. But I am committed to find out everything we can.

5. Valerie Amos:

   The government, armed and terrorist groups, continue to kill, maim, rape, torture and take Syria to new lows that seemed unimaginable a few years ago, we need the numbness to the senseless violence and the apparent apathy to end.