insensate

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  1. adjective Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
  2. adjective Unconscious.
  3. adjective Lacking sensibility; unfeeling: "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal” (Peter S. Prescott).
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  • I marched down the grassy slope, my leg for once pain free -- in fact, I felt numb all over, insensate, a robot-man going through the motions, while the brain and the heart hid out. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Seeming nearly insensate, Zedd's breath wheezed out. —  Soul of the Fire
  • He had no idea how long he had been insensate, no idea how long it had been since they had taken him there, but the screams had brought him awake. —  Temple of the Winds
  • Once the civilized man would have known revulsion, but that civilized man had been beaten out of me by the Nazis and all that was left was this raging, bloodthirsty, near-insensate revenging monster. —  The Dreamthief's Daughter
  • If only you had let us know! —  Dragons of Spring Dawning
 

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  1. Latin īnsēnsātus : in-, not; see in-1 + sēnsus, understanding, reason; see sense.

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  1. from Late Latin insensatus, from in- privative + sensatus, endowed with sense, from Latin sensus, sensation, sense: see sense.
 

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