A symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction

Usage examples of numbness.

His eyes closed, his will girding itself to a supreme effort, his senses exalted to a state of pleasing numbness, he called upon Angele to come to him, his voiceless cry penetrating far out into that sea of faint, ephemeral light that floated tideless over the little valley beneath him.

My numbness vanished in a sudden jolt of pain, as incandescent and irrefusable as lightning.

Observer Mike Linder of WNEW-FM stated that he had felt a sudden numbness, a kind of cold sensation.

Looking around the table, he realized with a creeping numbness that his father and he were sitting with half a dozen circus performers, a ringmaster, a dinosaur trainer, and Lotto Gluck himself.

Ah felt that satisfying numbness but ah was so up on the meth that a poofy line ay toot would make nae real difference.

Watching, Brek Veronar felt a little stir of involuntary pride, a dim numbness of regret.

Perched on his seat, the moist living reins slipping and tugging in his hands, Vanamee, in the midst of this steady confusion of constantly varying sensation, sight interrupted by sound, sound mingling with sight, on this swaying, vibrating seat, quivering with the prolonged thrill of the earth, lapsed to a sort of pleasing numbness, in a sense, hypnotised by the weaving maze of things in which he found himself involved.

Hysteria, so long held at bay by resigned numbness, sent tremors of resurgent fury coursing through her pinned arms and legs.

The boys had the travois to pull, and from them he felt numbness and cold right now, along with a lingering flutter of fear.

But Verity had already cut the strips of cloth tying Cyn to the bed, and he gratefully swung up into the vertical, working the numbness out of his wrists.

Life is full of numbness and of balk, Of haltingness and baffled short-coming, Of promise unfulfilled, of everything That is puffed vanity and empty talk: Its very bud hangs cankered on the stalk, Its very song-bird trails a broken wing, Its very Spring is not indeed like Spring, But sighs like Autumn round an aimless walk.

Fear drove away his numbness, and he checked the lifesigns of the noisemaker against those stored in his tricorder.

The sheets are heavenly against her flesh, sweet numbness is spreading through her limbs, and although the sanction of nightfall is still a long way off, she feels herself drifting into sleep, only vaguely aware of a gentle commotion next to her in the bed which, only when she wakes next morning, she will discover to be Puss, by then nestled, in a state of perfect contentment, at her feet.

He felt a thornlike stabbing at the back of his neck, and immediately a numbness began to spread through his body, preventing him from calling out.

Gradually, I remember, this numbness of mind gave way to one consciousness--the consciousness of utter isolation, of treading the winepress alone.