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Inanimate vs Insentient - What's the difference?

inanimate | insentient |

As adjectives the difference between inanimate and insentient

is that inanimate is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object while insentient is having no consciousness or animation; not sentient.

As a noun inanimate

is something that is not alive.

As a verb inanimate

is (obsolete) to animate .

inanimate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
  • Not being, and never having been alive.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=5 citation , passage=I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.}}
  • (grammar) Not animate.

    • Antonyms

    * (grammar) animate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is not alive.

    • Verb

    (inanimat)
  • (obsolete) To animate.
    • (John Donne)
    ----

    insentient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having no consciousness or animation; not sentient
  • Insensitive, indifferent
  • *1941 , Theodore Roethke, Death Piece
  • *:His thought is tied, the curving prow
  • *:Of motion moored to rock;
  • *:And minutes burst upon a brow
  • *:Insentient to shock.