ἀν·αίσθητος, ος, ον :
   I qui ne sent pas :
      1 au propre, dont les sens sont émoussés, insensible, HPC. V. med. 14 ; PLAT. Tim. 75 e, etc. ; ἀν. τινος, PLAT. Leg. 843 a, qui n’a pas le sentiment de qqe ch. ;
      2 au mor. stupide, grossier, THC. 6, 86 ; DÉM. 240, 10 ; τὸ ἀναίσθητον, THC. 1, 69, le manque de perspicacité ;
   II pass. :
      1 qu’on ne sent pas, insensible, THC. 2, 43 ; PLAT. Tim. 52 a ;
      2 qui ne tombe pas sous les sens, PLAT. Tim. 52 a ; ARSTT. Phys. 4, 13, 7, etc.

• Cp. -ότερος, HPC. 14, 28.

Étym. ἀν-, αἰσθάνομαι.

ον, without sense or feeling, Thrasymach. 1, Pl. Ti. 75e; ἀ. τινός without sense of a thing, Id. Lg. 843a; ἀ. καὶ νεκρός Men. 705; ἀ. ψαύσιος καὶ τρώσιος Aret. SD 2.12; ἀ. ἡ ἁφή the sense of touch is lost, ib. 1.7. Adv. ἀναισθήτως, πάντων ἔχειν Hp. Epid. 3.17. ιέ; ἀ. ἔχειν to be insensible or indifferent, Isoc. 12.112, cf. Th. 1.82; ἀ. διακεῖσθαι Arist. EE 1231a1.
without perception or common sense, wanting tact, stupid, Th. 6.86; οἱ ἀ. Θηβαῖοι those blockheads…, D. 18.43, cf. Phld. Rh. 1.215S. ; τὸ ἀναίσθητον, = ἀναισθησία, Th. 1.69. Adv. -ως Phld. Rh. 1.227S. Pass., unfelt, θάνατος Th. 2.43.
not perceptible by sense, ἀόρατον καὶ ἄλλως ἀ. Pl. Ti. 52a, cf. Phld. Piet. 20, etc. ; ἐν ἀ. χρόνῳ in an unappreciable time, Arist. Ph. 222b15, cf. Po. 1450b39.

1) unempfindlich, gefühllos, stumpfsinnig, Thuc. 6.86 ; τινός, gegen etwas, Plat. Tim. 65a, Legg. VIII.843a ; σκαιὸς καὶ ἀν. Dem. 18.120 ; τὸ ἀν., Stumpfsinn, Thuc. 1.69.
2) nicht empfunden, nicht empfindbar, θάνατος Thuc. 2.43 ; ἀόρατον καὶ ἀν. Plat. Tim. 52a, öfter.
• Adv. ἀναισθήτως ἔχειν, unempfindlich sein, Plut. Sol. 20.