释义 |
insentience|ɪnˈsɛnʃ(ɪ)əns| [f. next: see -ence.] The fact or condition of being insentient; insensibility, unconsciousness.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 102 In the view of all the pandits, there is no emancipation apart from insentience. 1924J. M. Murry Voyage xii. 224 All was as it must be: happiness for one, pain for another, and for yet another insentience like his own. 1936D. H. Lawrence Phoenix 344 The insentience of armed, bullying men, in face of living, sentient things. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 13/1 It would be hard to know where to begin to peel back the layers of insentience..in such an ad. 1972Sci. Amer. May 33/1 Whereas the insentience of the viscera has long been received as physiological dogma with a status comparable to the circulation of the blood, the insentience of muscles has often been called in question and probably cannot be regarded as universally accepted even today. |