Insentient

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insentient
       adj : devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation;
             "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: {insensate}]
             [ant: {sentient}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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