Sentient
[ˈsentiənt] or ['sɛntɪənt]
Definition
(adj.) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; 'the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage'- T.E.Lawrence .
(adj.) consciously perceiving; 'sentient of the intolerable load'; 'a boy so sentient of his surroundings'- W.A.White .
Typist: Owen--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
Typed by Ellie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Perceiving, perceptive, sensitive.
Checked by Douglas
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Feeling, percipient, conscious, intelligent, cognizant
ANT:Insentient, insensate, mindless, unconscious, unintelligent, nonpercipient,incognizant
Edited by Bridget
Definition
adj. discerning by the senses: having the faculty of perception and sensation: (phys.) noting those parts which on stimulation give rise to sensation.—n. the mind as capable of feeling.—ns Sen′tience Sen′tiency.—adv. Sen′tiently in a sentient or perceptive manner.
Editor: Monica
Examples
- It was stone, but it seemed sentient. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Like sentient things--even like the lords and ladies of creation sometimes--might have done much, but did nothing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- From the primitive or nutrient soul which ha s to do with the vital functions of growth and reproduction, is developed the sentient soul, concerned with movemen t and sensibility. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Monica