insentient
English
Etymology
in- + sentient
Adjective
insentient (comparative more insentient, superlative most insentient)
- having no consciousness or animation; not sentient
- Insensitive, indifferent
- 1941, Theodore Roethke, Death Piece
- His thought is tied, the curving prow
- Of motion moored to rock;
- And minutes burst upon a brow
- Insentient to shock.
- 1941, Theodore Roethke, Death Piece
Translations
having no consciousness or animation
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