Sensation vs Insensate - What's the difference?
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A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
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A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
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Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
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* 1928 , , "Moriturus":
Senseless; foolish; irrational.
* 1818 , , Rob Roy , ch. 13:
* 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 13:
* 1913 , , Chance , ch. 6:
* 1918 , , The False Faces , ch. 12:
Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
* 1847 , , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ,ch. 36:
* 1904 , , A Man's Woman , ch. 6:
* 1917 , , The Adventures of Jimmie Dale , ch. 8:
(medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli.
* 1958 June, Edward B. Schlesinger, "Trigeminal Neuralgia," American Journal of Nursing , vol. 58, no. 6, p. 854:
* 2004 Aug. 1, Jeff G. van Baal, "Surgical Treatment of the Infected Diabetic Foot," Clinical Infectious Diseases , vol. 39, p. S126:
* 2005 Feb. 5, "Minerva," BMJ: British Medical Journal , vol. 330, no. 7486, p. 316:
One who is insensate.
* 1873 , , A Pair of Blue Eyes , ch. 22:
(rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.
As nouns the difference between sensation and insensate
is that sensation is a physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed while insensate is one who is insensate.As an adjective insensate is
having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.As a verb insensate is
(rare) to render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.sensation
English
Noun
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- If I might be
- Insensate matter
- With sensate me
- Sitting within,
- Harking and prying,
- I might begin
- To dicker with dying.
- [T]he sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh.
- 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.
- [T]he romping girl teased her . . . and was always trying to pick insensate quarrels with her about some "fellow" or other.
- 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.
- I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate .
- That insensate , bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point.
- . . . 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.
- If the ophthalmic branch is cut the patient must be told about the hazards of having an insensate cornea.
- 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.
- 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) sentientNoun
(en noun)- 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.