sentient
Meanings
Plural: sentients
Adjective
- endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; - T.E.Lawrence
- "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"
Adjective Satellite
- consciously perceiving; ; - W.A.White
- "sentient of the intolerable load"
- "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"
Adj
- Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
- Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
- Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
Noun
- Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
- An intelligent, self-aware being.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
Synonyms
animate, intelligence, intelligent, sapient, self-aware, sensate, sentient, sophont
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
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