insentience

9.9

The state of not being able to feel or notice things

noun
/ɪnˈsɛnʃəns/

Specialized

: insensibilidad

The insentience of the patient was evident after the anesthesia took effect.

Examples

In her sleep, she exhibited insentience, completely unaware of the happenings around her.
His insentience during the experiment raised concerns about the ethical treatment of test subjects.
In victims, the bite causes a spreading insentience, a rising tide of paralysis.

Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

unconsciousness

vsinsentience

13 6.0

A state when a person is not awake and not aware of what is happening around them

is a more general absence of awareness and sensory perception

loss of consciousness

vsinsentience

Specialized

6 5.3

A short time when a person is not aware of what is around them and does not respond

is the broader long or permanent lack of sensory perception and awareness

insensibility

vsinsentience

1 7.8

A state when a person is unconscious and not aware of things around them

focuses specifically on total lack of sensory perception and consciousness

impercipience

vsinsentience

9.9

A lack of awareness of what is happening

applies to complete lack of ability to sense or feel generally

Antonyms

consciousness

229 4.9

Being aware of something, for example a mistake or a risk

sentience

7 8.2

The ability to feel and notice things, like pain or happiness

How Sentient

sentience

7 8.2

consciousness

157 5.6

unconsciousness

13 6.0

insentience

Specialized

9.9

inanimacy

Specialized

9.9

Surface Forms

insentience singular

insentiences plural

Morphology

insentience = sentience (transparent) = in + senti + ence

The negative prefix 'in-' combines straightforwardly with 'sentience' to mean the absence of sentience.

Etymology

The word insentience starts with in- meaning 'not' and the root sentire meaning 'to feel', the same root as sense and sentient. So insentience means 'not feeling', lacking consciousness or the ability to sense things.