insensible vs monotone

insensible

adj
  • Unable to be understood; unintelligible. 

  • Incapable or deprived of physical sensation. 

  • Unable to be perceived by the senses. 

  • Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent. 

  • Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless. 

  • Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic. 

monotone

adj
  • Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function. 

  • Having a single unvaried pitch. 

verb
  • To speak in a monotone. 

noun
  • A piece of writing in one strain throughout. 

  • A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound. 

How often have the words insensible and monotone occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )