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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



... burn the insentient books than the men who preach the living Word!" spoke Anthony, suddenly putting out his hands and clasping hers. "Freda, there have been men burnt alive before this for speaking such words as we in Oxford whisper amongst ourselves. If such a fate should ...
— For the Faith • Evelyn Everett-Green
... consciousness, feeling, perception; excitement. Associated Words: aesthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory, sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


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