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Insensitive vs Unstirred - What's the difference?

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Insensitive is a related term of unstirred.


As adjectives the difference between insensitive and unstirred

is that insensitive is not expressing normal physical feeling while unstirred is that has not been mixed by stirring.

insensitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not expressing normal physical feeling
  • * 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
    • It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
  • Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
  • * 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
    • Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
  • * 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
    • Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive .

    Related terms

    * insensitively * insensitivity

    Synonyms

    * unaffected

    Antonyms

    * sensitive

    unstirred

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has not been mixed by stirring.
  • Not stirred or emotionally excited.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Villette
    • Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks.

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