Sentient - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Sentient :  adj
1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: animate] [ant: insentient]
2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Sentient : \Sen"ti*ent\, n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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