numbness

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: N AH1 M N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Etymology tree English numb Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English numbness From numb + -ness.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изтръпване (iztrǎpvane) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Cebuano: banhod — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Czech: znecitlivění — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Dutch: gevoelloosheid — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Finnish: tunnottomuus — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Finnish: turtumus — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Finnish: kohme — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• French: engourdissement — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• German: Benommenheit — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Greek: μούδιασμα (moúdiasma) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Ancient Greek: νάρκη (nárkē) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Ancient Greek: μάλκη (málkē) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Hungarian: zsibbadás — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Hungarian: zsibbadtság — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Hunsrik: Daabheet — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Hunsrik: Daabheit — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Indonesian: mati rasa — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Irish: eanglach — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Latin: torpor — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Latvian: stingums — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Latvian: stīvums — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Latvian: nejutīgums — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Macedonian: отрпнатост (otrpnatost) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Malay: kebas — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Malayalam: മരവിപ്പ് (maravippŭ) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Polish: odrętwienie — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Portuguese: dormência — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Spanish: entumecimiento — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Tagalog: pagkamanhid — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Tagalog: manhid — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Telugu: తిమ్మిరి (timmiri) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Udi: заморой (zamoroj) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Udi: замару (zamaru) — absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
• Bulgarian: вцепеняване (vcepenjavane) — reduced ability to experience emotion
• Finnish: tunteettomuus — reduced ability to experience emotion
• Finnish: turtumus — reduced ability to experience emotion
• Finnish: turtuneisuus — reduced ability to experience emotion
• Galician: mormeira — reduced ability to experience emotion