Explore Numbness through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like symptom or apathy. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Numbness in a sentence
Numbness meaning
- Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation.
- Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion.
Synonyms of Numbness
Using Numbness
- The main meaning on this page is: Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation. | Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion.
- Useful related words include: symptom, apathy, indifference, spiritlessness.
- In the example corpus, numbness often appears in combinations such as: numbness in, and numbness, numbness and.
Context around Numbness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Numbness
- In this selection, "numbness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, facial, include, suffered, weakness, eventually and spreading stand out and add context to how "numbness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a headache numbness in his and bedridden with numbness spreading through. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "numbness" sits close to words such as adamson, adapts and agitating, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with numbness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When we have become addicted to the numbness? (8 words)
Other results from scorpion stings include discoloration, numbness, and pain. (10 words)
In some cases, patients might have associated numbness and nerve thickening too. (12 words)
Meanwhile Mr Phillips who suffered numbness in his spine and lower limbs due to multiple fractures and hitting his head against the windscreen told police: 'This had left me extremely shaken and I just feel lucky to have got out alive. (41 words)
About the same time, her cousin As Kearney tells it, Resa went to an emergency department in Melbourne complaining of numbness and painful tingling from the waist down, only to be sent home with Panadol and told to see her GP. (41 words)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms of stroke can come suddenly and can include numbness, weakness especially on one side of the body, trouble speaking, walking or seeing, or a severe headache. (36 words)
When we have become addicted to the numbness? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to healthline Facial numbness is a common symptom among people who are on the verge of having a stroke.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms of stroke can come suddenly and can include numbness, weakness especially on one side of the body, trouble speaking, walking or seeing, or a severe headache.
After the game, head coach Deion Sanders said his son had numbness in his hand after a first quarter hit.
If the disease affects the spinal cord, it can lead to numbness, weakness and loss of movement in the lower part of the body.
Joyce said after the game that it was after one pitch in the middle of the five that he felt tingling and numbness in his hand and forearm.
Meanwhile Mr Phillips who suffered numbness in his spine and lower limbs due to multiple fractures and hitting his head against the windscreen told police: 'This had left me extremely shaken and I just feel lucky to have got out alive.
That can be as much as a one degree up to 38C, when heat exhaustion sets in – dizziness, visual disturbance, thirst, nausea, palpitations and numbness.
The numbness eventually set in. She just kept telling herself that she was safe, her brothers had done it much longer than this, so she was fine.
When we have become addicted to the numbness?
About the same time, her cousin As Kearney tells it, Resa went to an emergency department in Melbourne complaining of numbness and painful tingling from the waist down, only to be sent home with Panadol and told to see her GP.
A few days after receiving the first massage, the singer reported on Facebook that she had been left bedridden, with numbness spreading through her body.
Around March 29, she revealed that Derek looked ill and was suffering from a headache, numbness in his right hand and was struggling to breathe.
As soon as the water consumed my foot I lost all sensation in it, swallowed up by a vacuum like numbness.
In some cases, patients might have associated numbness and nerve thickening too.
Other results from scorpion stings include discoloration, numbness, and pain.
Recently I’ve felt mild numbness and tingling down one side of my body.
She also experiences constant burning, tingling and numbness in her legs and uses a mobility scooter when out and about.
That’s a sense of meaninglessness, marked sense of disbelief, identity disruption, numbness, that sort of thing, and it has to be outside your cultural contingencies.
There was quite a high chance that I would wake up with some weakness and numbness in my right leg which did happen.
This can cause sciatica, a painful condition where nerves become trapped, triggering pain and numbness as far down as the feet.
Common combinations with numbness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- numbness in 15×
- and numbness 13×
- numbness and 13×
- of numbness 8×
- the numbness 7×
- numbness or 6×
- numbness of 5×
- numbness weakness 4×
- as numbness 4×
- or numbness 4×