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UNRESPONSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events
Example:
in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away
Synonyms:
deadness; unresponsiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unresponsiveness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unresponsiveness"):
frigidity; frigidness (sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse)
resistance (the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria))
Antonym:
responsiveness (the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events)
Derivation:
unresponsive (not responding to some influence or stimulus)
unresponsive (aloof or indifferent)
