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Unsentient vs Insentient - What's the difference?

unsentient | insentient |

As adjectives the difference between unsentient and insentient

is that unsentient is lacking sentience while insentient is having no consciousness or animation; not sentient.

unsentient

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Lacking sentience.

    • 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.