insentient

English

Etymology

in- +‎ sentient

Adjective

insentient (comparative more insentient, superlative most insentient)

  1. Having no consciousness or animation; not sentient.
  2. Insensitive, indifferent.
    • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 4:
      His thought is tied, the curving prow
      Of motion moored to rock;
      And minutes burst upon a brow
      Insentient to shock.

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