CLASS VI: Words Relating to THE SENTIENT and MORAL POWERS.
SECTION I: Affections In General
Sensibility. –N. sensitiveness, moral sensibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, mobility, vivacity, tenderness, softness, sentimentality, excitability, fastidiousness, sore point, where the shoe pinches.
Insensibility. –N. inertness, impassibility, apathy, phlegm, dulness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang-froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalence, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, indifference, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, marble, deadness, torpor, lethargy, coma, trance, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation.
Thesaurus of Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget, M.D., F.R.S. Enlarged by John Lewis Roget, M.A., New Edition Revised and Enlarged by Samuel Romily Roget, M.A. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, the edition is copyright 1941, 1947.
Photo taken in Lippitt House Museum, Providence, RI
SECTION I: Affections In General
Sensibility. –N. sensitiveness, moral sensibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, mobility, vivacity, tenderness, softness, sentimentality, excitability, fastidiousness, sore point, where the shoe pinches.
Insensibility. –N. inertness, impassibility, apathy, phlegm, dulness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang-froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalence, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, indifference, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, marble, deadness, torpor, lethargy, coma, trance, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation.
Thesaurus of Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget, M.D., F.R.S. Enlarged by John Lewis Roget, M.A., New Edition Revised and Enlarged by Samuel Romily Roget, M.A. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, the edition is copyright 1941, 1947.
Photo taken in Lippitt House Museum, Providence, RI
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