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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  • He spoke to the insensate, unresponsive fortune paper. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 01 - January 2002
  • Everyone around her disappeared into a haze leaving her insensate, her face drained of colour as she stared in disbelief at the man taking his leave of her.
  • I am as much a part of this country as the insensate rock and the Sequoia tree, as my ancestors were millen­niums before me. —  Cheif Red Fox
  • For £20 per annum, it expects in one woman the attainments of several professors—but the demand is insensate, and I think should rather be resisted than complied with. —  Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
  • When I told Karl that I felt nothing during the procedure, he reminded me that the human brain is an insensate organ, nerveless as a stone. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
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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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