insentient.

Lacking sensation or conscious awareness.

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Words that belong together

• insentient matter

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She spoke to the insentient stone.

The story contrasted minds with insentient matter.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable in clinical or relational use; degree comparison is limited to naturally gradable figurative applications. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.