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Insentient   Listen
adjective
Insentient  adj.  
1.
Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient.
Synonyms: inanimate, insensate. "The... attributes of an insentient, inert substance." "But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient."
2.
Incapable of sensation.
Synonyms: insensate, insensible.





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"Insentient" Quotes from Famous Books



... who died in 1137. Ramanuja's greatest works are his commentaries on the Brahma-sutra and Bhagavad-gita. In them he expounds with great ability the principles of his school, namely, that God, sentient beings or souls, and insentient matter form three essentially distinct classes of being; that God, who is the same as Brahma, Vishnu, Narayana, or Krishna, is omnipotent, omnipresent, and possessed of all good qualities; that matter forms the body of souls, and souls form the body of God; that the soul attains salvation as ...
— Hindu Gods And Heroes - Studies in the History of the Religion of India • Lionel D. Barnett
... lying like an insentient log on his arm, Taurus Antinor fell up at last against the door of the house; his foot had ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy


Words linked to "Insentient" :   sentient, sentience, insensate


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