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. Robert Vallieres:

   Nobody wants numbness, we want our senses.

2. 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.

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:

   These burn pits that incinerate waste, the waste of war, medical and hazardous material, jet fuel and so much more, and they 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.

5. Mark Davis:

   I went and met with one of my buddies who owns a series of nutrition supplement stores, and he was just like 'I don't know. I don't have words, you know, he says, I have a four-month-old daughter. What am I bringing her up into?' you know, and there's a numbness, stunned shock. And to be very candid with you, these people did not see it coming. I didn't see it coming.