INSENTIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insentience mean? 

• INSENTIENCE (noun)
  The noun INSENTIENCE has 1 sense:

1. lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations

  Familiarity information: INSENTIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSENTIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("insentience" is a kind of...):

inanimateness; lifelessness (not having life)

Antonym:

sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)

Derivation:

insentient (devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation)