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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
she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident
in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away
How To Use unresponsiveness In A Sentence
- Because of his unresponsiveness to treatment and further progression of disease, the patient chose to receive only palliative medical care.
- Until now, tests have only been carried out when parents have become concerned at their child's unresponsiveness - by which time the damage could already have been done
- This state of unresponsiveness could be adoptively transferred to partially immunosuppressed recipients.
- Her unresponsiveness failed to cool his ardour.
- While offering no apologies for the Mail's unresponsiveness, it does have to be accepted that reporting the exceptional rather than the commonplace is one of the elements of news journalism.
- ISS's Ms. Bowie said the company's record of unresponsiveness to shareholder concerns and its board members' staggered terms factored in her firm's decision. Chesapeake CEO Faces Storm
- Then it happened, and our tepid prehistory was, quite literally, forgotten beyond a lingering embarrassment at my own callow unresponsiveness.
- Your application might be experiencing long pauses or periods of unresponsiveness, and you might want to identify or rule out garbage collection as the cause of the pauses.
- Challenges in implementation abound, including setting the eligibility criteria in practice, resource constraints, elite capture at the local level, and unresponsiveness to changes in people's needs.
- They can include: difficulty breathing sweating while nursing or taking a bottle poor weight gain irritability, lethargy or unresponsiveness (the baby seems “out of it”) Cardiomyopathy