sentient
adjective
having the power of perception by the senses; conscious.
unsentient
-
a word derived from
sentient.
Example Sentences
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And the same uncertainty possesses and pervades even unsentient things.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
And, therefore, while showing Himself neither indifferent nor powerless against barren and false pretensions, He did this only once, and then only by a sign wrought upon an unsentient tree.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
He was here, alone in the unsentient, uncritical forest.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Also the difference of unsentient things from one another, the world with its five divisions.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
Hamlet dreads "the undiscovered country"; but unsentient death is to him "a consummation devoutly to be wished."
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
