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insentient

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in·sen·tient  (n-snshnt)
adj.
Devoid of sensation or consciousness; inanimate.

in·sentience n.

insentient [ɪnˈsɛnʃɪənt]
adj
Rare lacking consciousness or senses; inanimate
insentience , insentiency n
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Adj.1.insentient - devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"
sentient, animate - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence


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Now it bound him with insentient fetters, walling his soul in darkness and silence, blocking it from the world which to him had been a riot of action.
Most of us have more or less frequently derived a similar impression from a man's manner of doing some very little thing: plucking a flower, clearing away an obstacle, or even destroying an insentient object.
 
 
 
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