Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class III. Words Relating to Matter
Section III. Organic Matter
2. Sensation
1. Sensation in general
376. Physical Insensibility.
NOUN:
INSENSIBILITY, physical insensibility; obtuseness &c. adj.; palsy, paralysis, anæsthesia or anesthesia, narcosis, narcotization, hypnosis, stupor, coma; twilight sleep, dämmerschlaf [Ger.]; sleep (inactivity) [See Inactivity]; moral insensibility [See Insensibility]; hemiplegia, motor paralysis.
ANÆSTHETIC or anesthetic, anæsthetic agent; local -, general- anæsthetic; opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; cocaine, novocain; refrigeration.
VERB:
BE INSENSIBLE &c. adj.; have a -thick skin, - rhinoceros hide.
RENDER INSENSIBLE &c. adj.; blunt, cloy, satiate, pall, obtund, benumb, numb, deaden, freeze, paralyze; anæsthetize or anesthetize, put under the influence of chloroform &c. n.; put to sleep, hypnotize, stupefy, stun.
