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Insentient

Insentient \In*sen"ti*ent\, a. Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient.

Syn: inanimate, insensate.

The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance.
--Reid.

But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient.
--Sir W. Hamilton.

2. incapable of sensation.

Syn: insensate, insensible.

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insentient

a. 1 having no consciousness or animation; not sentient 2 Insensitive, indifferent

WordNet
insentient

adj. devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: insensate] [ant: sentient]

Usage examples of "insentient".

If I were to persist in treating chicks as Descartes might have wanted me to - and indeed as some schools of behaviourist psychologists would still maintain - as insentient machines, mere logic circuits based on carbon chemistry instead of the more reliable silicon chemistry of the computer, I would soon cease to be able to design sensible experiments or interpret the results that I obtain.

The standard operating system for each of the computer cores lay in secondary storage, waiting to return her mind to its original, insentient state.