insentient
adjective
insentient is an adjective meaning “Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-E-N-T-I-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does insentient mean?
adjective
- 1
Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.
- 2
rareInsensitive, indifferent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of insentient
- more insentient comparative
- most insentient superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is insentient?
Insentient appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does insentient come from?
From in- + sentient.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).