Definition of Sentient

1. Adjective. Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"

Exact synonyms: Animate
Attributes: Sentience
Similar to: Sensate
Derivative terms: Animateness, Sentience
Antonyms: Insentient

2. Adjective. Consciously perceiving. "A boy so sentient of his surroundings"
Similar to: Conscious
Derivative terms: Sentience, Sentience, Sentiency

Definition of Sentient

1. 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.

2. n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Definition of Sentient

1. a person or thing capable of sensation [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sentient

1. Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. Especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues. Origin: L. Sentiens, -entis, p. Pr. Of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sentient

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