What's the difference between insentient and unconscious?

Insentient


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (Insentient describes the sensory state of the skin below the level of the lesion where the subject has no awareness of surface stimulation).
  • (2) A relatively higher sweating rate was observed on the forehead and the cyclic sweating behavior of the insentient skin was not synchronous with that in the sentient.
  • (3) Another distortion of the notion of the transcending blessing of life valued more in the abstract than an individual's suffering or insentience is the judgement that comatose persons must continue to receive forced life-support against their family's claim of right to decline care.
  • (4) He was not downcast for he could propel himself in a bath chair, yet he was a blank of insentience.

Unconscious


Definition:

  • (a.) Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
  • (a.) Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration.
  • (a.) Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
  • (2) Some aspects of the life structure, of course, are also unconscious, namely, those having to do with attempted solutions to core personality conflicts and those reflecting modes of ego functioning.
  • (3) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
  • (4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
  • (5) With the use of two methods, measurement of conjugated dienes and thiobarbituric acid reactivity, brain lipid peroxidation could be documented as a result of exposure to CO at a concentration sufficient to cause unconsciousness.
  • (6) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
  • (7) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
  • (8) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (9) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
  • (10) In the paper life-threatening diseases which may be accompanied by profound unconsciousness are explained from the laboratory-chemical point of view.
  • (11) Drawings by women alcoholics of the self, a murderer, the murderer's victim and victim's parent revealed conscious and unconscious identification with the depicted roles.
  • (12) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
  • (13) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
  • (14) The contribution of psychoanalysis to a theory of subjectivity involves the formation of a concept of the subject in which neither consciousness nor unconsciousness holds a privileged position in relation to the other; the two coexist in a mutually creating, preserving and negating relationship to one another.
  • (15) After transport to the hospital, arterial blood gases and the level of unconsciousness were again determined.
  • (16) This set was called by the authors a syndrome reflecting an overpowering, but latent, unconscious sense of crisis, of a catastrophe ("Catastrophe-syndrome").
  • (17) The authors hypothesized that physical effects like weight-gain, breast enlargement, and pseudopregnancy unconsciously supplement the conscious relief from fear of pregnancy to improve sexual adaptation.
  • (18) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
  • (19) Finally, we provide a contemporary cognitive account of the unconscious that attempts to combine the best both approaches within an information-processing framework.
  • (20) Monitoring clinical signs in unconscious patients provides only late information about cerebral deterioration.