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Definition of Insentient
1. Adjective. Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation. "Insentient (or insensate) stone"
Attributes: Sentience
Similar to: Unfeeling
Derivative terms: Insentience
Antonyms: Sentient
Definition of Insentient
1. a. Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception.
Definition of Insentient
1. Adjective. having no consciousness or animation; not sentient ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insentient
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insentient
Literary usage of Insentient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy (1879)
"Sentient and insentient nerves are histologically alike. ... The spinal cord,
which is the principal nervous organ of the insentient life, is the first to ..."
2. An Essay on the Origin and Prospects of Man by Thomas Hope (1831)
"Most animals still have a considerable substructure of organs and parts vital
merely insentient, before on these they again super struct parts of a sentient ..."
3. Poet Lore (1900)
"His Greek use of personification has already been spoken of. Of his 188
personifications, 108 personify insentient nature. ..."
4. A Comparative Dictionary of the Bihārī Language by August Friedrich Rudolf Hoernle, George Abraham Grierson (1885)
"46, vr, 'Hari, as constituting the whole insentient and sentient creation, is
all pervading and existing at all times,' such fragrant incense (of praise) ..."
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