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English
Etymology
From in- + sentient.
Adjective
insentient (comparative more insentient, superlative most insentient)
- Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.
- 1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage 2011, p. 367:
- ver her flayed, exposed soul of a young girl who had gone open and warm to give herself to the children, there set a hard, insentient thing, that worked mechanically according to a system imposed.
- (rare) Insensitive, indifferent.
1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber , 1968, →OCLC, page 4:His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock.
Translations
having no consciousness or animation