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Meaning of where there's no sense there's no feeling | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

A living thing of little or no intelligence does not feel pain or other negative sensations.

Examples

“'Where there's no sense there's no feeling,' they would say when they had hurt some creature by accident or through carelessness. By sense they meant wits or understanding, and these they imagined purely human attributes.”

“Mrs. Hooper says where there's no sense there's no feeling, but I do feel it. It hurts.”

“They say where there's no sense there's no feeling; that would make the clods and oafs round here among the most insensitive, unfeeling air and noise polluters in the western world.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

where there's smoke, there's fire where you at where you stand depends on where you sit where- where's the beef where's the fire