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- Dictionaryinsentient/ɪnˈsɛnʃ(ə)nt/
adjective
- 1. incapable of feeling or understanding things; inanimate: "it's arrogant to presume animals to be insentient"
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Being insentient means having no ability to feel or understand. There's no need to apologize to an insentient chair leg when you accidentally kick it. Insentient is the opposite of sentient, or "capable of feeling," which comes from the Latin sentire, "to feel."
noun. Synonyms. inanimate. insensate. insensible. senseless. unfeeling. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of insentient in a Sentence.
Insentient definition: not sentient; without sensation or feeling; inanimate.. See examples of INSENTIENT used in a sentence.
Rare lacking consciousness or senses; inanimate.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
Define insentient. insentient synonyms, insentient pronunciation, insentient translation, English dictionary definition of insentient. adj. Devoid of sensation or consciousness; inanimate. in·sen′tience n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Synonyms for INSENTIENT: inanimate, unconscious, insensate, unfeeling, lifeless, senseless, insensible, comatose; Antonyms of INSENTIENT: feeling, sensitive, sentient, conscious, aware, sensible, sensate, cognizant
incapable of feeling or understanding things; inanimate: . Meaning, pronunciation and example sentences, English to English reference content.
