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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness;
- Example: "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
[syn: sentient, animate]
2. consciously perceiving;
- Example: "sentient of the intolerable load"
- Example: "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.] 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. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "sentient": alive, alive to, au courant, awake, aware, cognizant, conscious, conversant, emotionable, feeling, impressible, impressionable, impressive, knowing, open, perceptive, reactive, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, susceptible, susceptive, witting
