SENTIENT

sentient, animate

(adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; “the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God’s stage”- T.E.Lawrence

sentient

(adjective) consciously perceiving; “sentient of the intolerable load”; “a boy so sentient of his surroundings”- W.A.White

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

sentient (comparative more sentient, superlative most sentient)

Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

Synonym: sensate

Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.

Antonym: insensate

(chiefly, science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

Synonym: Thesaurus:self-aware

Noun

sentient (plural sentients)

Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.

(chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.

Synonym: Thesaurus:sentient

Source: Wiktionary

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Sen"ti*ent, a. Etym: [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.]

Definition: Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.

Sen"ti*ent, n.

Definition: One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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