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鈍感 (どんかん, donkan) Japanese meaning: insensitive | Kotomora
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ひと
の
気き
持も
ち
に
鈍どん
感かん
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He is insensitive to other people's feelings.
I don't want to be thought of as a thick-skinned person.
Kanji 感 emotion, feeling, sensation Related words 無神経 emphasizes tactlessly ignoring others' feelings, while 鈍感 focuses more broadly on being slow to notice cues, whether emotional or physical.
鈍感 is a noun/adjectival-noun specifically about emotional or sensory insensitivity, while 鈍い is a broader i-adjective covering many kinds of dullness.
鈍感 describes a general insensitivity or slowness to notice things, while 無反応 describes the specific absence of a reaction to a particular stimulus.
Opposites· 6 敏感 describes someone highly sensitive and quick to notice feelings or stimuli, the opposite of 鈍感 (insensitive, slow to notice).
鈍感 means insensitive or slow to notice things, the direct opposite of 過敏's excessive sensitivity.
鈍感 means insensitive or slow to notice things, the opposite of the emotional sensitivity described by 繊細.
Show 3 more Written forms 鈍どん 感かん Usage 99%
Standard kanji spelling; high priority.
ドンカン Usage 1%
Etymology Compound of 鈍 (don, 'dull, slow') and 感 (kan, 'feeling, sensation'), literally 'dull sensation'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used since at least the early modern period.
感かん 受じゅ 性せい
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鈍感 means insensitive or slow to notice things, the opposite of having strong 感受性.
鈍感 describes someone insensitive or slow to notice feelings, the opposite of a デリケート person who is easily hurt.
鈍感 means dull or insensitive to stimuli, the direct opposite of 鋭敏's sharp, acute perception.
