The word "numbness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the physical or emotional absence of sensation. For example, "After the accident, he felt a numbing sensation in his leg."
There is behind this, you intuit, a growth in sleepless nights, one that is exacerbated by a numbness about numbers big and small.
They were full of drudgery and numbness and – shudder – actual competency.
As Sampi recounts the detail there is a numbness.
A LIFETIME or even a few years down the pits left many coal miners with crippling illnesses lung diseases and vibration white finger, a debilitating numbness of hands caused by using vibrating drilling and cutting equipment.
Yet in rendering the guilt, numbness and bewilderment of its aftermath, she also kills off any foolish temptation to envy the intensity of warfare.
It last happened in 2002, when the waves of suicide-bombings at the height of the second Palestinian intifada shocked Israelis into numbness.
"Russian society, exhausted by preceding tension and failures, is in a state of some numbness and apathy, spiritual disjunction and depression…Russian literature is flooded by a muddy wave of pornography and sensationalism .Bolshevik Russia had no need for reflective thinkers like Bulgakov.
In May this year India's Supreme Court warned of "an emotional numbness in society", whereby daughters-in-law are kept as near slaves or attacked out of "insatiable greed".
But then all that needed to be said had been written already, in 1972, at the end of "The Best and the Brightest":Time was on the side of the enemy, and we were in a position of not being able to win, not being able to get out...only being able to lash out...And so the war went on, tearing at this country; a sense of numbness seemed to replace an earlier anger.
Swelling may occur, along with skin discoloration, numbness, and a tingling feeling.
In this case the girl ignored her bite for a month, so by the time she developed symptoms including nausea, blurred vision, fever, numbness, slurred speech, and tremours it was too late for the vaccine to be effective.
