insentient

American  

[in-sen-shee-uhnt, -shuhnt] / ɪnˈsɛn ʃi ənt, -ʃənt /

adjective

1. not sentient; without sensation or feeling; inanimate.

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insentient British  

/ ɪnˈsɛnʃɪənt /

adjective

1. rare lacking consciousness or senses; inanimate

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Other Word Forms

• insentience noun
• insentiency noun

Etymology

Origin of insentient

First recorded in 1755–65; in- ³ + sentient

Example Sentences

“I began gradually to stir into another style of life, less theoretical and less optimistic, less vulnerable. I was ready for an insentient middle age,” he wrote in “The Savage God.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2019

There, with the ability to talk to the unresponsive living, his nerves "insentient now as string," he longs even for the pain of Hell.

From Time Magazine Archive

It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

"This process of essence into emanation, whereby if this be that comes to be, cannot be attributed to motiveless, insentient things."

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

In other systems the create is that which has become, and that which shall become, but in this system it is eternal, the spirits, and so forth, the sentient and insentient.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava