鈍感

• 読み: どんかん
• ローマ字: donkan
• 漢字の分解: 鈍 (don/nibu) — dull, blunt, slow; 感 (kan) — feeling, sensation, sense
• 発音: /doɴ.kaɴ/

意味

Insensitive; thickheaded; dull; thick-skinned. Lacking sensitivity to others' feelings or situations.

A na-adjective and noun describing a lack of perceptiveness or emotional sensitivity. The opposite of 敏感 (binkan, sensitive). Can be used neutrally or critically — 鈍感な人 (an insensitive person), 鈍感力 (the power of insensitivity, a popular self-help concept meaning resilience through not overthinking). Sometimes used self-deprecatingly: 私は鈍感だから (I'm oblivious, so...).

例文

1. 彼女の気持ちに気づかないなんて鈍感すぎる。
2. 鈍感な性格のおかげでストレスが少ない。
3. あの人は周りの空気に鈍感だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: relationships, personality, daily life

トーン: critical

起源と歴史

From Sino-Japanese: 鈍 (don, dull/blunt) + 感 (kan, feeling/sense). Together they form 'dull feeling' — an inability to pick up on subtleties or emotional cues.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal