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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
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
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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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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