Sentient

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having sense perception; conscious: "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage” ( T.E. Lawrence).
  • adj. Experiencing sensation or feeling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Conscious or self-aware.
  • adj. Experiencing sensation, thinking, thought, or feeling.
  • adj. Possessing human-like knowledge and intelligence.
  • n. Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
  • n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of sensation or of sense-perception; having the power of feeling.
  • Characterized by the exercise of sense or sense-perception.
  • In physiology, noting those parts which on stimulation give rise to sensation.
  • Synonyms Sensitive, etc. See sensible.
  • n. The mind as capable of feeling.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  • adj. consciously perceiving
  • Equivalent
    sensate    conscious   
    Antonym
    insensate   
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