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n. - Lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations.

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Usage examples (10)
  • In victims the bite causes a spreading insentience, a rising tide of paralysis.
  • They slept for many hours, and for Ariakas it was a slumber of utmost insentience.
  • But it was the laboring classes who continued to labor in insentience without reflection.
  • From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world.
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