noun
- the state or quality of lacking consciousness, awareness, or the ability to feel or perceive
Usage: formal
Examples
- The philosopher argued that rocks exist in a state of complete insentience.
- After the accident, the patient’s insentience lasted for several hours.
- The debate centered on whether artificial intelligence could overcome insentience.
- Scientists study the boundary between sentience and insentience in various organisms.
- The medication induced a temporary insentience that allowed for painless surgery.
- Many people find it disturbing to contemplate the insentience of inanimate objects.