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insentient

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Adjective

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in=sen=ti=ent

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective insentient has 1 sense

insentient(a = adj.all) insensate - devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"

Derived form noun insentience₁

Antonym: sentient

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CIDE DICTIONARY

insentient, a.

Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient. [1913 Webster]
"The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance." [1913 Webster]

"But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient." [1913 Webster]
incapable of sensation. [WordNet 1.5]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

insentient, adj. not sentient; inanimate.

Derivative

insentience n.

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THESAURUS

insentient

abiotic, asleep, azoic, benumbed, callous, dead, deadened, dull, dumb, exanimate, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient, inanimate, inanimated, inert, insensate, insensible, insensitive, lifeless, mute, nonconscious, nonliving, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, senseless, soulless, thick-skinned, thick-witted, unanimated, unconscious, unfeeling, unfelt, unimpressible, unimpressionable, unperceptive, unresponsive, unsusceptible

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