Definition of "insentience" []

• The condition of being insentient (noun)

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• "A professor's memoir minus the professorial caution or modesty or whatever - the story of the fellow who believes that enduring loves can turn insentience into sentience."
• "Such as: "Enduring love is the daily effort to convert insentience into sentience, silence into language, indifference into interest, lumps of flesh into people sharing food, wine, and conversation around a table.""
• "But just at the point where you thought you had mastered insentience, something occurred to remind you that you were still fully human, no matter what you'd previously thought."