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 or animation; not sentient

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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Clusterbook #1 | clusterflock 2009

  • 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

  • Another option is to install Switcher ([insentient. net]) and activate the mouse shortcut.

    Activate Alt-Tab Switching With Just Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    Extraordinary Measures 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • Another option is to install Switcher insentient.net and activate the mouse shortcut.

    Activate Alt-Tab Switching With Just Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • 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.

    Clusterbook #1 | clusterflock 2009

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