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Definition of Insentience
1. Noun. Lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations.
Definition of Insentience
1. Noun. The condition of being insentient ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insentience
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insentience
Literary usage of Insentience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... spinal transection relegates to the field of insentience the stomach, the
lungs, and the heart, in addition to the other viscera previously rendered ..."
2. Redemption, Hindu and Christian by Sydney Cave (1919)
"The perfection of our redemption is not insentience, but life more abundant.
Christianity is a religion of joy, yet an asceticism of spirit has formed, ..."
3. Evolution by Frank Byron Jevons (1900)
"But to the cosmos before the struggle for life begins, and after life and its
struggles have relapsed into the insentience of unconscious matter, ..."
4. The Philosophy of Individuality: Or, The One and the Many by Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1893)
"... vibrations and varied as they vary in kind, and that it sinks into the background
towards insentience when atomic motion is fettered by opposing motion, ..."
5. The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu by Mādhava, Edward Byles Cowell, Archibald Edward Gouch (1908)
"... how could there then be conformity between them [so that both the blue and
the insentience should together constitute the character of the thing ? ..."
6. A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems by Nehemiah Nilakantha Gore, Nīlakaṇṭha, Fitzedward Hall (1862)
"... as else it would have been — to the end of the para. graph of the text, on
the insentience of the soul and the sentience of the internal organ. ..."
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