unresponsiveness
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
- she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident
- in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away
• Syn:
deadness
• Ant:
responsiveness
• Derivationally related forms:
dead (for: deadness), unresponsive
• Hypernyms:
quality
• Hyponyms:
frigidity, frigidness, resistance
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