insentient

The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.
Ulysses|James Joyce
But the little tree stood within her arms insentient, quivering only to the long rumbles.
Saint's Progress|John Galsworthy
The last blows fell upon a bloody but insentient mass of flesh.
The King of the Mountains|Edmond About
Does not the infant grow into the man by the aggregation of insentient matter assimilated into his being in the shape of food?
The Catholic World; Vol. IV.; October, 1866, to March, 1867.|E. Rameur

Do you mean that the lesser is ever producing the greater; and that in the aggregation of insentient matter life is evolved?
The Catholic World; Vol. IV.; October, 1866, to March, 1867.|E. Rameur

British Dictionary definitions for insentient

insentient

/ (ɪnˈsɛnʃɪənt) /

adjective

rare lacking consciousness or senses; inanimate

Derived forms of insentient

insentience or insentiency, noun

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