insentient
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]insentient (comparative more insentient, superlative most insentient)
- Having no consciousness or animation; not sentient.
- Insensitive, indifferent.
- 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 4:
- His thought is tied, the curving prow
Of motion moored to rock;
And minutes burst upon a brow
Insentient to shock.
Translations
[edit]having no consciousness or animation
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