UNRESPONSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unresponsiveness mean? 

• UNRESPONSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun UNRESPONSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: UNRESPONSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRESPONSIVENESS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deadness; unresponsiveness

Context example:

in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away

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)