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unfeeling

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,810 of 15,258leans spoken

Unfeeling means showing no sympathy for others. An unfeeling remark, cold and unfeeling, unfeeling towards them.

It is about the display rather than the inner state, since somebody may feel a great deal and still be called unfeeling for how they behaved. The literal sense, meaning numb, survives in medical writing.

Definitions of unfeeling

  1. 1adjectiveunfeelingShowing no sympathy for others.B2+

    “How can you be so unfeeling when she has just lost her mother?”

unfeeling is a quality.

Also accepted in games: unsympathetic

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    felynge

  2. English

    feeling

  3. English, today

    unfeeling

From un- + feeling. feeling comes from Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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unfeeling in the wild

  • In 1996, Crofford voiced MOE 2000, an unfeeling computer director, in an episode, "$20.01", of Space Ghost Coast to Coast on Cartoon Network.

    Keith Crofford

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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