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adjective

Insentient adj.

Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient.

Synonyms: inanimate, insensate. "The... attributes of an insentient, inert substance." "But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient."

Incapable of sensation.

Synonyms: insensate, insensible.

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Etymology of 'Insentient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Insentient" Quotes from Famous Books

... consciousness, feeling, perception; excitement. Associated Words: aesthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory, sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory, ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... and trace the stages in the process. But if intellectual delight in studying the process be left out of account, a serious question at once appears. In the higher stages of evolution the cosmic forces, ceasing to act merely on insentient matter, have operated on sentient beings, and in so doing have given rise to the mystery of pain and suffering. When the less fit of chemical combinations or even of the lower forms of life perished in the struggle, we may regard the process with the unemotional ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... The insentient masquerader on the floor had called himself "good-enough Smith"; he must serve now as good-enough Lanyard, at least for the Lone Wolf's purposes; the police at all events would accept him as such. And if the memory of Michael Lanyard must needs wear the stigma of brutal murder, he need not repine ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... lying like an insentient log on his arm, Taurus Antinor fell up at last against the door of the house; his foot had ...

— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... If he means the visible world, he did not surely, and without saying so, mean to exclude the noblest part of it—the sentient! If he did, it is doubly strange that he should immediately attribute not merely sense, but conscious sense, to that part, the insentient, namely, which remained. If you say he does so but by a figure of speech, I answer that a figure that meant less than it said—and how much less would not this?—would be one altogether unworthy of ...

— Hope of the Gospel • George MacDonald