Definitions for: Sentient

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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

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

Synonyms: animate, conscious, sensate

Antonyms: insensate, insentient

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