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Definition of insentient in English: insentientadjective ɪnˈsɛnʃ(ə)ntɪnˈsɛnʃ(i)ənt Incapable of feeling or understanding things; inanimate. 无知觉的;无理解力的;无生命的 it's arrogant to presume animals to be insentient 假定动物无知觉是(人的)傲慢自大。 Example sentencesExamples - And not only are the men fond of it, even such insentient creatures as plants and trees have become infected and take delight in it.
- Anything else in the room remained stationary and insentient.
- Casually and almost unwillingly she knelt down beside Nitrus and Psyd, holding her hands above the insentient body.
- Kristin becomes insentient rather than sap her lover's creativity, thus upholding the conventions of the period.
- Thus, out of three qualities of Sat, Chit, and Ananda, Jiva or ordinary soul fails to manifest Ananda and both Ananda and Consciousness are hidden in jada or insentient beings.
- Cunningham paused, and turned to appraise Katalin, who was still lying insentient before the fire.
- Most of us assume we have moved beyond treating animals as insentient things.
- It is an umbrella term, applicable equally to concrete and abstract, immediate or remembered, sensory or conceptual, subjective or objective, sentient or insentient, organic or inorganic, and so on.
- While Shiva is Knowledge-Existence-Bliss Absolute, the Shakti is the manifestation of the Principle at immanent plane as the reality of the whole universe, both sentient and insentient.
- It is not possible to reciprocate a purely passive or mechanical or insentient conglomeration of objects.
- Everyone else was either insentient or had run away.
- Every being - sentient or insentient - has a role to play in this manifest universality of the Spirit.
- Over the three months, they learned not only the names, but also the faces and the characteristics of their sentient and insentient neighbors.
- Here, Feinberg denies that an insentient potential person has interests at all.
- The animation of insentient or nonhuman entities produces an effect of cacophony and distraction.
- It states that the individual soul and insentient matter are distinct from Brahman, but Brahman is the basis of their existence and reality.
- It is worth ending this small number of unethical killings in order to secure the right of women to rid their bodies of unnecessary and insentient clumps of flesh.
- The conclusion that we live in an unplanned, insentient universe became ineluctable.
- The line should be drawn between sentient beings and insentient things.
- Here, the profound inertia of self-duplicating and arbitrary sovereignty is revealed as absurd, unconnected repetition, the phonemes detonating like the ‘thumping’ of the insentient machine imagined by Rachel.
Synonyms inanimate, lifeless, inorganic, inert insensate, lacking physical sensation unconscious, comatose, anaesthetized, desensitized, numb stupefied, knocked out, passed out, blacked out informal dead to the world, out, out cold, out for the count, out of it British informal spark out
Derivativesnoun We may be battered practically into insentience, and we may simultaneously be hurting beyond what anyone could imagine. Example sentencesExamples - A short period of insentience or unawareness as a prelude to death - usually lasting for no more than a few days - does not violate intrinsic human dignity.
- He began to wonder if his gift might have been a curse: the ancient mariner has ‘strange power of speech’, but yearns to be relieved of it, restored to insentience and silence.
- How has personal insentience changed in our society during the past two centuries?
- It may lack some of the epistolary poetry of, say, Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and the style is plain almost to the point of insentience.
Definition of insentient in US English: insentientadjectiveinˈsenSH(ē)əntɪnˈsɛnʃ(i)ənt Incapable of feeling or understanding things; inanimate. 无知觉的;无理解力的;无生命的 it's arrogant to presume animals to be insentient 假定动物无知觉是(人的)傲慢自大。 Example sentencesExamples - It states that the individual soul and insentient matter are distinct from Brahman, but Brahman is the basis of their existence and reality.
- And not only are the men fond of it, even such insentient creatures as plants and trees have become infected and take delight in it.
- The animation of insentient or nonhuman entities produces an effect of cacophony and distraction.
- Over the three months, they learned not only the names, but also the faces and the characteristics of their sentient and insentient neighbors.
- While Shiva is Knowledge-Existence-Bliss Absolute, the Shakti is the manifestation of the Principle at immanent plane as the reality of the whole universe, both sentient and insentient.
- Every being - sentient or insentient - has a role to play in this manifest universality of the Spirit.
- Cunningham paused, and turned to appraise Katalin, who was still lying insentient before the fire.
- It is worth ending this small number of unethical killings in order to secure the right of women to rid their bodies of unnecessary and insentient clumps of flesh.
- Casually and almost unwillingly she knelt down beside Nitrus and Psyd, holding her hands above the insentient body.
- Here, Feinberg denies that an insentient potential person has interests at all.
- Most of us assume we have moved beyond treating animals as insentient things.
- The line should be drawn between sentient beings and insentient things.
- Here, the profound inertia of self-duplicating and arbitrary sovereignty is revealed as absurd, unconnected repetition, the phonemes detonating like the ‘thumping’ of the insentient machine imagined by Rachel.
- Everyone else was either insentient or had run away.
- It is an umbrella term, applicable equally to concrete and abstract, immediate or remembered, sensory or conceptual, subjective or objective, sentient or insentient, organic or inorganic, and so on.
- Thus, out of three qualities of Sat, Chit, and Ananda, Jiva or ordinary soul fails to manifest Ananda and both Ananda and Consciousness are hidden in jada or insentient beings.
- Kristin becomes insentient rather than sap her lover's creativity, thus upholding the conventions of the period.
- Anything else in the room remained stationary and insentient.
- It is not possible to reciprocate a purely passive or mechanical or insentient conglomeration of objects.
- The conclusion that we live in an unplanned, insentient universe became ineluctable.
Synonyms inanimate, lifeless, inorganic, inert |