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in·sen·tient I0161100 (ĭn-sĕn′shənt)adj. Devoid of sensation or consciousness; inanimate.
in·sen′tience n.insentient (ɪnˈsɛnʃɪənt) adjrare lacking consciousness or senses; inanimate inˈsentience, inˈsentiency nin•sen•ti•ent (ɪnˈsɛn ʃi ənt, -ʃənt)
adj. not sentient; without sensation or feeling. [1755–65] in•sen′ti•ence, in•sen′ti•en•cy, n. Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | insentient - devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"insensatesentient, animate - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence |
insentientadjectiveCompletely lacking sensation or consciousness:dead, inanimate, insensate.insentientenUK
Synonyms for insentientadj completely lacking sensation or consciousnessSynonymsSynonyms for insentientadj devoid of feeling and consciousness and animationSynonymsAntonymsReferences in periodicals archiveThey are no longer humans, but insentient animated corpses exploited and unaware of their oppressed condition, thus showing how Haitian zombies are quintessential victims or as Alfred Metraux summed them up in Voodoo in Haiti, "The zombi is a beast of burden which his master exploits without mercy, making him work in the fields, weighing him down with labour, whipping him freely and feeding him on meagre, tasteless food" (282).MAPPING THE ZOMBIE: DIEGO VELAZQUEZ BETANCOURT'S NEWFANGLED ZOMBIE IN LA NOCHE QUE ASOLARON TOKIOOn the compound avidyas'abala[degrees] used by Utpaladeva in his Eivadrsti to describe the planes on which, according to Bhartrhari, reality appears in the form of insentient objects, see nn.On the Saddhatusamiksa, a Lost Work Attributed to Bhartrhari: An Examination of Testimonies and a List of FragmentsThis is due to a lack of efficient vasoconstriction, vasodilation, and sweating in the insentient portion of the body.Using Thermal Comfort Models in Health Care Settings: A ReviewClarke, once said: "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." Let's prove him wrong by outliving the insentient beings, to bask in the glory of our own intellect as homosapiens.
- The reader is a student based in Abu DhabiSustainable cities or apocalyptic future?It is a common belief among modern naturalists that consciousness has evolved from insentient material forms of organization.ON THE SICKNESS OF MODERN REASON OR, WHAT IF ...?(13) The car's explosion turns the "murkiness" of mercy into a flurry of insentient atoms, wiping out--and only in this negative sense resolving--the tension between human and non-human perspectives that underlies Under the Skin."MURKY MERCY": MICHEL FABER'S UNDER THE SKIN AND THE DIFFICULTY OF REALITYAlready it was bone, the gray sky and the encroaching skyline pecked so clean by raptor night I shuddered at the cold gleam we hurtled toward like some insentient herd plunging underground at Clark and Division.Legible Horizon: Christian Wiman's Hammer Is the PrayerIn the present observation, the extension of the ischemic medullar injury to a high-level probably explained that a large proportion of the skin was insentient, with an impaired response to changes in cold and hot.Hypothermia with Extreme Bradycardia following Spinal Cord Infarction of Septic OriginBy doing so, he clarifies what Islamism is not: monolithic or insentient. Summarizing Islamism's ideological variations, Osman also describes the forms in which Islamist entities exist and have existed, from persecuted cabals to militant organizations to governing bodies and regional hegemons.Islamism and its inclinationsJust as it is to the parson's credit that he refuses to treat his servants as insentient blocks of wood, he accordingly does not account for his parishioners as numbers, but as distinct and precious human beings."TH' action fine": the good of works in George Herbert's poetry and proseThe government is not interested in your contribution; Egypt has always been governed by an insentient state that will never be capable of taking notice of scientifically motivated citizens.Why Egyptians repeatedly end up with mediocre governmentsSpearmint, olive and lemon trees must not be seen, in this context, as mere vegetative life that is insentient, fungible and outside the domain of the ethical and the grievable.Forensic ecologies of occupied zones and geographies of dispossession: Gaza and occupied East Jerusalemthey had moved by the power of the thought that one remakes the earth for one's enjoyment, that man's spirit gives meaning to insentient matter by molding it to serve one's chosen purpose.Happiness or life, or both: reply to Ole Martin MoenVerses 29-30 rebut the idea of an eternal insentient self, associated with the Vaisesika view.The metaphysical basis of Santideva's ethics"Computations and cybernetic processes are insentient because approach builds on and extends Maturana and Varela's (1980) notion of autopoiesis and Stuart Kauffman's (1993, 1995) idea of autocatalysis."The Terrance Deacon's incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter. The teleodynamics of culture, language, organization, science, economics and technology (closet). Part II: are culture, language, organization, science, economics, and technology (closet) teleodynamic phenomena |