insensible to colors
11Affinity — Af*fin i*ty, n.; pl. {Affinities}. [OF. afinit[ e], F. affinit[ e], L. affinites, fr. affinis. See {Affined}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife s blood relations, or between a wife and her husband s… …
12National Union Party (United States) — National Union Party Founded 1864 Dissolved 1868 …
13Hume on human understanding — David Hume on human understanding Anne Jaap Jacobson David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature1 was published before he was 30 years old. It is often said to be the greatest philosophical work written in English. Bold and ambitious, it is designed… …
14bloodless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. anemic; pale; unfeeling, cold; peaceful; cowardly. See colorlessness, cowardice, insensibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Pale] Syn. pallid, wan, anemic; see pale 1 . 2. [Coldhearted] Syn.… …
15secondary quality — noun : a mode of perception induced by some character of an object that does not coincide with the perception itself such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their… …
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