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Definitions for sentient
ˈsɛn ʃəntsen·tient
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Princeton's WordNet
sentient, animateadjective
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
sentientadjective
consciously perceiving
"sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
Wiktionary
sentientnoun
Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
sentientadjective
Conscious or aware.
sentientadjective
Experiencing sensation or feeling.
sentientadjective
(Primarily in Science Fiction) Possessing human-like intelligence.
Etymology: From sentiens, present active participle of sentio.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sentientadjective
Perceiving; having perception.
Etymology: sentiens, Latin.
This acting of the sentient phantasy is performed by a presence of sense, as the horse is under the sense of hunger, and that without any formal syllogism presseth him to eat. Matthew Hale.
Sentientnoun
He that has perception.
Etymology: from the adjective.
If the sentient be carried, passibus æquis, with the body, whose motion it would observe, supposing it regular, the remove is insensible. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.
Wikipedia
sentient
Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations. The word was first coined by philosophers in the 1630s for the concept of an ability to feel, derived from Latin sentientem (a feeling), to distinguish it from the ability to think (reason). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations. In different Asian religions, the word 'sentience' has been used to translate a variety of concepts. In science fiction, the word "sentience" is sometimes used interchangeably with "sapience", "self-awareness", or "consciousness".Some writers differentiate between the mere ability to perceive sensations, such as light or pain, and the ability to perceive emotions, such as fear or grief. The subjective awareness of experiences by a conscious individual are known as qualia in Western philosophy.
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sentient
Sentient refers to the ability to perceive or feel things. It is often used to describe a creature or being who possesses consciousness, experiences sensations, feelings, or subjective awareness.
Webster Dictionary
Sentientadjective
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
Sentientnoun
one who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being
Etymology: [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sentient
sen′shi-ent, 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.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sentient in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sentient in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of sentient in a Sentence
Freedom is the right of all Sentient Beings
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
The stars blink their existence into the world in sentient binary codes.
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.
The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.
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- empfindungsfähigGerman
- αισθητικός, ευαίσθητος, αισθητήριοςGreek
- consciente, sensible, con sentidosSpanish
- tietoinen, älyllinen, tuntevaFinnish
- sensibleFrench
- רגישHebrew
- 敏感, 知覚, 感覚を持つ, 意識する, 感覚Japanese
- ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿKannada
- sentientisLatin
- sansendeNorwegian
- bewustDutch
- przytomny, odczuwającyPolish
- sencientePortuguese
- разумныйRussian
- జ్ఞానTelugu
- 有情Chinese
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