1
[ adjective ] endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

Synonyms

animate

Examples

"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence

Used in print

(Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)

`` That it had found a planet on which human_beings could live and which was already inhabited by sentient beings '' ! said Hal , forgetting in his enthusiasm that he had not been asked to speak .

Related terms

insentient sensate sentience

2
[ adjective ] consciously perceiving

Examples

"sentient of the intolerable load" "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White

Related terms

conscious

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