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Insane vs Insensate - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between insane and insensate

is that insane is exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted while insensate is having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.

As a noun insensate is

one who is insensate.

As a verb insensate is

to render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.

insane

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
  • * '>citation
  • What is the cause of insanity?
    Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that,
    but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break
    down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In
    fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed
    to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins,
    and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling
    part of the story—the other half of the people who go in-
    sane' apparently have nothing organically wrong with
    their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their
    brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered micro-
    scopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as
    yours and mine.
    Why do these people go '
    insane
    ?
  • Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
  • Causing insanity or madness.
  • Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
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    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * sane

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    insensate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
  • * 1816 , , Diodati :
  • Since thus divided — equal must it be
    If the deep barrier be of earth, or sea;
    It may be both — but one day end it must
    In the dark union of insensate dust.
  • * 1928 , , "Moriturus":
  • If I might be
    Insensate matter
    With sensate me
    Sitting within,
    Harking and prying,
    I might begin
    To dicker with dying.
  • Senseless; foolish; irrational.
  • * 1818 , , Rob Roy , ch. 13:
  • [T]he sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh.
  • * 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 13:
  • Stupidly dozing, or communing with her incapable self about nothing, she sat for a little while with her hands at her ears. . . . Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth.
  • * 1913 , , Chance , ch. 6:
  • [T]he romping girl teased her . . . and was always trying to pick insensate quarrels with her about some "fellow" or other.
  • * 1918 , , The False Faces , ch. 12:
  • But in his insensate passion for revenge upon one who had all but murdered him, he had forgotten all else but the moment's specious opportunity.
  • Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
  • * 1847 , , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ,ch. 36:
  • I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate .
  • * 1904 , , A Man's Woman , ch. 6:
  • That insensate , bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point.
  • * 1917 , , The Adventures of Jimmie Dale , ch. 8:
  • . . . the most cold-blooded, callous murders and robberies, the work, on the face of it, of a well-organized band of thugs, brutal, insensate , little better than fiends.
  • (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli.
  • * 1958 June, Edward B. Schlesinger, "Trigeminal Neuralgia," American Journal of Nursing , vol. 58, no. 6, p. 854:
  • If the ophthalmic branch is cut the patient must be told about the hazards of having an insensate cornea.
  • * 2004 Aug. 1, Jeff G. van Baal, "Surgical Treatment of the Infected Diabetic Foot," Clinical Infectious Diseases , vol. 39, p. S126:
  • The presence of severe pain with a deep plantar foot infection in a diabetic patient is often the first alarming symptom, especially in a patient with a previously insensate foot.
  • * 2005 Feb. 5, "Minerva," BMJ: British Medical Journal , vol. 330, no. 7486, p. 316:
  • The innocuous trauma of high pressure jets and bubble massage to the insensate breast and back areas had caused the bruising seen in the picture.

    Antonyms

    * (having no sensation or consciousness) sentient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is insensate.
  • * 1873 , , A Pair of Blue Eyes , ch. 22:
  • Here, at any rate, hostility did not assume that slow and sickening form. It was a cosmic agency, active, lashing, eager for conquest: determination; not an insensate standing in the way.

    Verb

    (insensat)
  • (rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.
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