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Insentient   Listen
adjective
Insentient  adj.  
1.
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."
2.
Incapable of sensation.
Synonyms: insensate, insensible.





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"Insentient" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Insentient" :   insensate, insentience, sentience


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