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< inseminate

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in·sen·sate

(

n-s

, -s

t) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

1. Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
2. Unconscious.
Lacking sensibility; unfeeling: "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal" (Peter S. Prescott).
1. Lacking sense or the power to reason.
2. Foolish; witless.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin nsnstus : in-, not ; see in-¹ + snsus, understanding, reason ; see sense

OTHER FORMS:
in·sensately(Adverb), in·sensateness(Noun)

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