Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unconsciousness; lack of sensation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being insentient; lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
insentient
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations
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Examples
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A professor's memoir minus the professorial caution or modesty or whatever - the story of the fellow who believes that enduring loves can turn insentience into sentience.
Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects Post 2011
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A professor's memoir minus the professorial caution or modesty or whatever - the story of the fellow who believes that enduring loves can turn insentience into sentience.
Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects Post 2011
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Such as: "Enduring love is the daily effort to convert insentience into sentience, silence into language, indifference into interest, lumps of flesh into people sharing food, wine, and conversation around a table."
Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects Post 2011
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Such as: "Enduring love is the daily effort to convert insentience into sentience, silence into language, indifference into interest, lumps of flesh into people sharing food, wine, and conversation around a table."
Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects Post 2011
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But just at the point where you thought you had mastered insentience, something occurred to remind you that you were still fully human, no matter what you'd previously thought.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world.
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Suffer as they might, and they did suffer, wincing in every nerve and fibre from the cold material insentience of the northern countries and of America, still they would endure this for the sake of something else they wanted.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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In victims the bite causes a spreading insentience, a rising tide of paralysis.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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In victims the bite causes a spreading insentience, a rising tide of paralysis.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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In victims the bite causes a spreading insentience, a rising tide of paralysis.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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