insensitiveness

noun

"insensitiveness" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“insensitiveness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quality of being insensitive.

Corpus desk

Index EN-insensitiveness · insensitiveness · English

insensitiveness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "I" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for insensitiveness
PropertyValue
Headwordinsensitiveness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “insensitiveness” in English

insensitivenesssits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

insensitiveness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quality of being insensitive.".

insensitiveness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From insensitive + -ness. The correct English form is insensitiveness, spelled I-N-S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quality of being insensitive.

Etymology

From insensitive + -ness.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "insensitiveness"?
"insensitiveness" is spelled I-N-S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E-N-E-S-S.
What does "insensitiveness" mean?
As a noun, "insensitiveness" means: Quality of being insensitive.
What is the origin of the word "insensitiveness"?
From insensitive + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list