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insentient

[ in-sen-shee-uhnt, -shuhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

insentient

/ ɪnˈsɛnʃɪənt /

First recorded in 1755–65; in- ³ + sentient

The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.

But the little tree stood within her arms insentient, quivering only to the long rumbles.

The last blows fell upon a bloody but insentient mass of flesh.

Does not the infant grow into the man by the aggregation of insentient matter assimilated into his being in the shape of food?

Do you mean that the lesser is ever producing the greater; and that in the aggregation of insentient matter life is evolved?

April 18, 2024petrichor

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