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insentient

adj

Etymology

From in- + sentient.

  1. borrowed from sentiēns
  2. prefixed as insentient — “in + sentient”

Definitions

  1. Having no consciousness or feeling

    Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.

    • [O]ver 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 to a system imposed.
    • "Mr Carrados happens to be blind, Mr Spinola," interposed Copling, seeing that their host was so far in ignorance of the fact. "Impossible! Impossible!" exclaimed Spinola, riveting his own very bright eyes on his guest's insentient ones.

  2. Insensitive, indifferent.

    • His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for insentient. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA