Crossword clues for insentient
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 having no consciousness or animation; not sentient 2 Insensitive, indifferent
WordNet
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.