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Insensate is a related term of eccentric.


As adjectives the difference between insensate and eccentric

is that insensate is having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate while eccentric is not at or in the centre; away from the centre.

As nouns the difference between insensate and eccentric

is that insensate is one who is insensate while eccentric is one who does not behave like others.

As a verb insensate

is (rare) to render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.

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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    Anagrams

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    eccentric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * eccentrick (obsolete) * excentric * excentrick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
  • * 2011 , Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti. Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model , page 125,
  • Strikingly, we see that party births tend systematically to be at policy positions that are significantly more eccentric than those of surviving parties, whatever decision rule these parties use.
  • Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
  • As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater.
  • Having a different center; not concentric.
  • (of a person) deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.
  • * 1801', Author not named, ''Fyfield (John)'', entry in '''''Eccentric Biography; Or, Sketches of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern , page 127,
  • He was a man of a most eccentric turn of mind, and great singularity of conduct.
  • * 1807', G. H. Wilson (editor), ''The '''Eccentric Mirror , Volume 3, page 17,
  • Such is not the case with Mr. Martin Van Butchell, one of the most eccentric characters to be found in the British metropolis, and a gentleman of indisputable science and abilities, but whose strange humors and extraordinary habits, have rather tended to obscure than to display the talents he possessed.
  • * 1956 , , The City and the Stars , 2012, unnumbered page,
  • Khedron was the only other person in the city who could be called eccentric —and even his eccentricity had been planned by the designers of Diaspar.
  • (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
  • Having different goals or motives.
  • * , 1867 , Richard Whately (analysis and notes), James R. Boyd (editor), Essay XI: Wisdom for a Man's Self'', ''Lord Bacon's Essays , page 171,
  • .

    Usage notes

    * . See also (Isometric exercise)

    Synonyms

    * (not at or in the centre) eccentrical, excentrical * (not perfectly circular) eccentrical, excentrical * (having a different centre) eccentrical, excentrical * (deviating from the norm) eccentrical, excentrical, odd, abnormal * (against the contraction of a muscle) * (having different goals or motives) eccentrical, excentrical

    Antonyms

    * (against the contraction of a muscle) concentric

    Derived terms

    * eccentrically

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who does not behave like others.
  • * 1998 , Michael Gross, Life On The Edge , 2001, page ix,
  • Eccentrics live longer, happier, and healthier lives than conformist normal citizens, according to the neuropsychologist David Weeks.
  • A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
  • * 1840 , Dionysius Lardner, The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated , page 379,
  • The position of the eccentrics' which is necessary to make the pistons drive the engine forward must be directly the reverse of that which would cause them to drive the engine backwards. To be able, therefore, to reverse the motion of the engine, it would only be necessary to be able to reverse the position of the ' eccentrics , which may be accomplished by either of two expedients.
  • * 1994 , James M. Lattis, Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology , page 116,
  • Clavius goes on to use the large number of orbs in Fracostoro's theory as another reason to prefer the Ptolemaic system, then couples this issue with that of the relative capacity of the theories to save the phenomena, then finally reiterates the lack (as he sees it) of conflict between the Aristotelian natural philosophy and the eccentrics and epicycles of mathematical astronomy.
  • * 2007 , George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance , page 120,
  • The discussion that revolved around the admissibility of eccentrics' and epicycles lied(sic) at the core of this theoretical discussion, and those who would not allow such concepts took the position that such ' eccentrics and epicycles would then introduce a center of heaviness, other than the Earth, around which celestial simple objects would then move.
  • (slang) A kook.
  • See also

    * acentric