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[syn: insentient, insensate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insentient \In*sen"ti*ent\, a.
Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of
perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation;
inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient.
[WordNet sense 1+3]
Syn: inanimate, insensate.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert
substance. --Reid.
[1913 Webster]
But there can be nothing like to this sensation in
the rose, because it is insentient. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
[1913 Webster]
2. incapable of sensation.
Syn: insensate, insensible.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
insentient
adj 1: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation;
"insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: insentient,
insensate] [ant: animate, sentient]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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