Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

insentient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: in-sen-tient
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.

adj

Insensitive, indifferent.

Example Sentences

"[O]ver her flayed, exposed soul of a young girl who had gone open and warm to give herself to the children, there set a hard, insentient thing, that worked mechanically according to a system imposed."
""Mr Carrados happens to be blind, Mr Spinola," interposed Copling, seeing that their host was so far in ignorance of the fact. "Impossible! Impossible!" exclaimed Spinola, riveting his own very bright eyes on his guest's insentient ones."
"His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English sentient English insentient From in- + sentient.

Inflected Forms

more insentient (comparative) most insentient (superlative)

Synonyms

insensate

Questions

What does insentient mean?: Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.
Where does insentient come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English sentient English insentient From in- + sentient.

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