Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Devoid of sensation or consciousness; inanimate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of feeling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate. Opposite of
sentient . - adjective incapable of sensation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having no
consciousness oranimation ; notsentient
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
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Examples
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Natural selection can be a highly creative process (given a suitable supply of genetic variation to work from), but it is merely a mechanistic phenomenon – as inescapable and insentient as gravity.
A New Book 2010
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I had been thinking about how insentient forms in nature can become “labs” that shape human activity: the only place for miles to ford the river becomes a town and an economy.
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I'll submit these tickets I'm writing at the end of the day in a stack with all the tickets for the vehicles I find, numbered and insentient, poised illegally.
things to know about the people parked along the road that runs through Humboldt Park: part 20 Michael Seidel 2011
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Another option is to install Switcher ([insentient. net]) and activate the mouse shortcut.
Activate Alt-Tab Switching With Just Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Now it bound him with insentient fetters, walling his soul in darkness and silence, blocking it from the world which to him had been a riot of action.
Chapter 37 2010
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For the figure that confronts you in the library is very nearly 10ft tall and quite clearly blind and insentient, being one of Ron Mueck's stupendous hyperreal sculptures.
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All that were aware of the Illumna knew that any being that had the power to create was something of a wonder, so they sought out any single organic cell that had not been reduced to the living status of the beings on the planet; insentient carbon.
365 tomorrows » B. York : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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In other words, in this one machine Adams saw how energy that originally would have come from human beings had been replaced by something insentient, a thing that would run itself with no input from human hands except in its creation.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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Another option is to install Switcher insentient.net and activate the mouse shortcut.
Activate Alt-Tab Switching With Just Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I had been thinking about how insentient forms in nature can become “labs” that shape human activity: the only place for miles to ford the river becomes a town and an economy.
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