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Unfeelingness

Unfeeling \Un*feel"ing\, a.

  1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.

  2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.

    To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own.
    --Gray. [1913 Webster] -- Un*feel"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*feel"ing*ness, n.

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unfeelingness

n. The state or condition of being unfeeling.

WordNet
unfeelingness

n. devoid of passion or feeling [syn: callousness, hardness, insensibility]

Usage examples of "unfeelingness".

The mass institution of modern industrially based medicine, with its vast array of expensive machinery and industrially produced drugs seems to produce results consonant with the quality of civilization itself- mechanicalness, unfeelingness and human alienation.

A genuinely feeling soul has an insuperable repugnance alike for unfeelingness, for false feeling, and for false expressions of feeling.

Oxigenov told me all this, even flaunting his unfeelingness and carelessness somewhat, as if thereby doing me honor, that is, showing that he took me to be just such an all-denying higher being as himself, for whom dying, naturally, amounts to nothing.

Perdido saw this apparent unfeelingness in Billy, and thought ill of him for it.

Hence our holy duty of feeling, hence the shame in unfeelingness, in powerlessness to awaken the woman to desire.