insentient

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English sentient English insentient From in- + sentient.

1. Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.

   “[O]ver her flayed, exposed soul of a young girl who had gone open and warm to give herself to the children, there set a hard, insentient thing, that worked mechanically according to a system imposed.”

   “"Mr Carrados happens to be blind, Mr Spinola," interposed Copling, seeing that their host was so far in ignorance of the fact. "Impossible! Impossible!" exclaimed Spinola, riveting his own very bright eyes on his guest's insentient ones.”

2. Insensitive, indifferent.

   “His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock.”