insensitiveness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insensitiveness
Noun
  • Meghan Markle was accused of insensitivity by a British tabloid after filming a video from her car seat less than a mile from the tunnel where Princess Diana died.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Interestingly, the lifetimes achieved now surpass typical timescales for cosmic ray impacts, suggesting some level of insensitivity by cat qubits to such events.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Essentially, they’re used to meeting an expectation where rudeness and thoughtlessness aren’t tolerated—because their older sister made sure of that.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Not two years later this tower was to collapse precipitately under its own weight into a pyramid of dust and rubble, only to be rebuilt later, in, unaccountably, all its former gracelessness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are blatantly far-fetched thrillers, brilliant ones, that haunt us for decades in spite of their narrative inelegance or the quality of their gotchas.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Keeping the battery charged avoids this morsel of powertrain inelegance.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2022
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“Insensitiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensitiveness. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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