ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.
V. be sensible &c adj.; have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a sensitive heart.
take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink.
die of a rose in aromatic pain [Pope]; touch to the quick; touch on the raw, touch a raw
nerve.
Adj. sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to,
impassionable † , gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken;
soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying † , spirited, mettlesome, vivacious,
lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable &c 825; oversensitive, without
skin, thin-skinned; fastidious &c 868.
Adv. sensibly &c adj.; to the quick, to the inmost core.
Phr. mens aequa in arduis [Lat.]; pour salt in the wound.
823. Insensibility -- N. insensibility, insensibleness † ; moral insensibility; inertness,
inertia; vis inertiae [Lat.]; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency † , apathy, phlegm,
dullness, hebetude † , supineness, lukewarmness † .
cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid [Fr.]; stoicism,
imperturbation &c (inexcitability) 826 [Obs.]; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes;
insouciance &c (indifference) 866; recklessness &c 863; callousness; heart of stone, stock
and stone, marble, deadness.
torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction † , lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep &c
683; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness &c (physical
insensibility) 376.
neutrality; quietism, vegetation.
V. be insensible &c adj.; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility &c n.; not mind, not
care, not be affected by; have no desire for &c 866; have no interest in, feel no interest in,
take no interest in; nil admirari [Lat.]; not care a straw for &c (unimportance) 643;
disregard &c (neglect) 460; set at naught &c (make light of) 483; turn a deaf ear to &c
(inattention) 458; vegetate.
render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund † , numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden,
hebetate † , stun, stupefy; brutify † ; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize † , put under; assify † .
inure; harden the heart; steel, caseharden, sear.
Adj. insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to;
unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable † , unimpressible † ; passionless, spiritless,
heartless, soulless; unfeeling, unmoral.
apathetic; leuco- † , phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity;
flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous † , torporific † ; sleepy &c
(inactive) 683; languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic &c 376;
stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.
indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive &c 458; neglectful
&c 460; disregarding.
unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante † , insouciant, sans souci [Fr.]; unambitious &c
866.
unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred,
untouched, unshocked † , unstruck † ; unblushing &c (shameless) 885; unanimated;
vegetative.