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Meaning of "insentient" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INSENTIENT

insentient  [ɪnˈsɛnʃɪənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INSENTIENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Insentient is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INSENTIENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of insentient in the English dictionary

The definition of insentient in the dictionary is lacking consciousness or senses; inanimate.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INSENTIENT


ambient
ˈæmbɪənt
assentient
əˈsɛnʃɪənt
Bryant
ˈbraɪənt
client
ˈklaɪənt
compliant
kəmˈplaɪənt
convenient
kənˈviːnɪənt
deviant
ˈdiːvɪənt
discutient
dɪsˈkjuːʃɪənt
giant
ˈdʒaɪənt
gradient
ˈɡreɪdɪənt
ingredient
ɪnˈɡriːdɪənt
inscient
ɪnˈʃɪənt
negotiant
nɪˈɡəʊʃɪənt
officiant
əˈfɪʃɪənt
orient
ˈɔːrɪənt
percutient
pəˈkuːʃɪənt
recipient
rɪˈsɪpɪənt
stupefacient
ˌstjuːpɪˈfeɪʃɪənt
tumefacient
ˌtjuːmɪˈfeɪʃɪənt
variant
ˈvɛərɪənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INSENTIENT

insensate
insensately
insensateness
insensibility
insensible
insensibleness
insensibly
insensitive
insensitively
insensitiveness
insensitivity
insensuous
insentience
insentiency
inseparability
inseparable
inseparableness
inseparably
inseparate
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WORDS THAT END LIKE INSENTIENT

achievement quotient
balbutient
cancer patient
consentient
cosentient
dissentient
efficient
impatient
inpatient
intelligence quotient
omnipatient
outpatient
panel patient
patient
presentient
private patient
quotient
respiratory quotient
sentient
totient
volitient

Synonyms and antonyms of insentient in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «insentient» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INSENTIENT

Find out the translation of insentient to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of insentient from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «insentient» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无知觉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insenciente
570 millions of speakers

English

insentient
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेसुध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

insentient
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неодушевленные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

insensível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অচৈতন্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

insensible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Insentient
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

insentient
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

知覚のない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

insentient
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyenengake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không có cảm giác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயிரற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अचेतन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hissiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

insenziente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

insentient
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неживі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

insentient
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναίσθητος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bezield
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

insentient
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

insentient
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of insentient

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INSENTIENT»

The term «insentient» is normally little used and occupies the 129.236 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INSENTIENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about insentient

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INSENTIENT»

Discover the use of insentient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to insentient and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master ...
The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen Kazuaki Tanahashi. insentient beings speak dharma?" Is Dongshan agreeing with or not agreeing with Nanyang's words? Is this a question or a statement? If Dongshan was not agreeing with ...
Kazuaki Tanahashi, 2013
2
Coming to Terms With Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the ...
775), who not only taught that insentient things possess buddha-nature but also is credited with the doctrine that insentient things actually "become buddhas and preach the dharma."63 Not all Ch'an monks agreed, however; there are a ...
Robert H. Sharf, 2002
3
Thinking With Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese ...
But the urge toward increasingly comprehensive and expansive rhetorical formulations would inevitably run up against the scripturally sanctioned dichotomy between the sentient and the insentient. Exegetes were thus forced to reproduce the ...
Charlotte Furth, Judith T. Zeitlin, Ping-chen Hsiung, 2007
4
Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval ...
In Japan, the problem of the Buddhahood of insentient beings — refocused as the Buddhahood of grasses and trees — garnered greater interest and moved in a different direction. Kukai saw plants and trees as participating ontologically in ...
Jacqueline Ilyse Stone, 2003
5
Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist
(mujfi) in an extraordinary way, similar to his approach to other words and symbols, he wrote: The way insentient beings expound Dharma should not be understood to be necessarily like the way sentient beings expound Dharma. On the basis ...
Hee-Jin Kim, 2004
6
The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Tantric ...
Does paśyantī see herself as seeing or as simply insentient? If insentient, then she simply has an insentient nature. (If seeing:) Indeed, there is an infinite regress of ones who see.281 Moreover, does she see herself, given that she exists in the ...
John Nemec, 2011
7
India in the Chinese Imagination: Myth, Religion, and Thought
But if chrysanthemums were prajñā, prajñā would be the same as the insentient, and if emerald bamboos were the dharma-body, then the dharma-body would be the same as grass and trees. Then when people munch on bamboo shoots, ...
John Kieschnick, Meir Shahar, 2013
8
Panpsychism: Past and Recent Selected Readings
Because they become Buddhas whenever the sentient do. Thus "when one attains it, all attain it" — how could this exclude the inanimate? If you say that the insentient do not give rise to practices and attain Buddhahood, then the sentient also ...
D. S. Clarke, 2004
9
The True Dharma Eye
Dongshan asked Yunyan, “Who can hear the teaching of the insentient?”1 Yunyan said, “It can be heard by the insentient.”2 Dongshan asked, “Do you hear it, master?”3 Yunyan said, “If I heard it, then you would not hear my teaching.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, John Daido Loori
10
The Vibrating Universe
How is the opponent wrong if he contends that Brahman is unconscious or insentient? The non-eternality of the empirical world will be later discussed in the book. It may now be provisionally accepted that the world has a beginning and an ...
Nr̥siṃhacaraṇa Paṇḍā, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INSENTIENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term insentient is used in the context of the following news items.
1
NYC Is Turning Trash Cans Into Wi-Fi Hotspots : Discovery News
We don't know this for sure — anthropological studies of insentient communities are notoriously underfunded. But in any case, trash cans in ... «Discovery News, Jul 15»
2
Dogen and My Journey to Oneness with a Flower
... sentient vs insentient, etc. Then we have to actualize in our daily lives these two simultaneously true and mutually dependent realities. That is ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
3
Injecting Life into the Insentient
Often, history finds voices from its trusted time-keepers to recount glorious stories of its lost magnificence. But, sometimes, words fail them. «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
4
Ekmeles program lives up to group's name in Five Boroughs Festival …
The overriding mode, though, is a general murkiness, with plaintive dissonance in the voices and insentient murmuring in the brass. The piece ... «New York Classical Review, Jun 15»
5
Australia: When is Free Speech Unfree? When it involves the Abbott …
(Yes, that decision is to be made by the insentient dark matter of ministerial indiscretion.) Dislike Australia, or how it is run, then something must ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jun 15»
6
Pixar Rewind: 'WALL-E'
In some ways, humanity has become the insentient being, oblivious and indifferent to the world around them until they are disconnected from ... «Rotoscopers, Jun 15»
7
JACK WEATHERLY: Key's Mississippi memoir is a comic triumph
The man of the title is Key's father, a huge, tough, seemingly insentient being who lived in a world in which, as Key says throughout, the male of ... «Mississippi Business Journal, May 15»
8
Marco Rubio's murderous myth: Why his “noble lie” about American …
For example: The United States is a country, not a person; and like every other insentient thing, it cannot be said to possess a will of its own. «Salon, May 15»
9
Raymond Berry: 'Hidden Hanover' at Randolph-Macon College
... concerned about being respectful to the landscape and the "liturgy" contained within. The Buddhists call this the "teachings of the insentient." ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
10
Rage Of Ultron baffles those without in-depth Avengers knowledge
... onto anything vaguely out of sync with things as they should be—even something insentient—bloats it into new and unnatural shape. «A.V. Club, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Insentient [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/insentient>. May 2024 ».
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