INSENTIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insentient mean? 

• INSENTIENT (adjective)
  The adjective INSENTIENT has 1 sense:

1. devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation

  Familiarity information: INSENTIENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSENTIENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation

Synonyms:

insensate; insentient

Context example:

insentient (or insensate) stone

Similar:

unfeeling (devoid of feeling or sensation)

Attribute:

sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)

Antonym:

sentient (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness)

Derivation:

insentience (lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations)

 Context examples 

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.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)