insentience
Lacking all feeling
Insentience is the absence of sentience—the inability to perceive, feel, or experience.
Rocks, machines, and corpses possess insentience.
The term appears in philosophical discussions about consciousness: The insentience of matter was once taken for granted.
It contrasts with the awareness attributed to humans, animals, and possibly artificial intelligence.
Loss of sensation
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- coldnessLow temperature state
- stoninessUnyielding emotional hardness
- impassivityUnresponsiveness to stimuli
insensibility · torpor · apathy · detachment · blankness · deadness · hollowness · emptiness
Tangible entity or aim
- thingUnspecified entity or matter
- matterSpace-occupying substance with mass
- materialPhysical matter; pertinent
- substancePhysical material with mass
artifact · tool · device · machinery · equipment · apparatus · furniture · utensil
Botanical organism
- vegetationPlant life collectively
- floraPlants of a region
- fungusSpore-bearing organism
- bacteriaNucleus-free single-celled organisms
virus · organism · cell · tissue · amoeba · microbe · vegetative · comatose
State of sentient awareness
- qualiaSubjective character of experiences
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- zombieReanimated dead body
- dualismPhilosophy of opposed pairs
materialism · subjective experience · mind · awareness · cognition · sapience · soul · spirit
numbness
Loss of sensation
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- coldnessLow temperature state
- stoninessUnyielding emotional hardness
impassivity · insensibility · torpor · apathy · detachment · blankness · deadness · hollowness · emptiness · vacancy
object
Tangible entity or aim
- thingUnspecified entity or matter
- matterSpace-occupying substance with mass
- materialPhysical matter; pertinent
substance · artifact · tool · device · machinery · equipment · apparatus · furniture · utensil · rock
plant
Botanical organism
- vegetationPlant life collectively
- floraPlants of a region
- fungusSpore-bearing organism
bacteria · virus · organism · cell · tissue · amoeba · microbe · vegetative · comatose · brain-dead
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- qualiaSubjective character of experiences
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- zombieReanimated dead body
dualism · materialism · subjective experience · mind · awareness · cognition · sapience · soul · spirit · animism
insentiencesentience
Capacity for subjective experience
consciousness · awareness · feeling · sensation · perception
insentiencecognizance
State of knowing something
intelligence · sapience · understanding · comprehension · thought
insentiencesensitivity
Responsiveness to stimuli
responsiveness · reactivity · alertness · attentiveness · perceptiveness