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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

... 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

... 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

... quite dazed. Their mechanical, overbearing way was something she was unaccustomed to. It was like the jaws of a pair of insentient iron pincers. She rose, ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... grew more and more shut, and over her flayed, exposed soul of a young girl who had gone open and warm to give herself to the children, there set a hard, insentient thing, that worked mechanically according ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence