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Definition of Sentient
1. Adjective. Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"
Attributes: Sentience
Similar to: Sensate
Derivative terms: Animateness, Sentience
Antonyms: Insentient
2. Adjective. Consciously perceiving. "A boy so sentient of his surroundings"
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
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Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif.