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   In·sen·sate

   /inˈsenˌsāt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. lacking physical sensation: "a patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate"
   • ▪ lacking sympathy or compassion; unfeeling: "a positively insensate hatred"
   • ▪ completely lacking sense or reason: "insensate jabbering"

   Word Origin late 15th century: from ecclesiastical Latin insensatus, from in- ‘not’ + sensatus ‘having senses’ (see sensate).

   Derivatives

   • 1. insensately adverb

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