sentient meaning

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sentient (adjective): endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness.

sentient has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

sentient as an adjective

  1. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
    • the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage

    Synonyms: animate

    Opposite: insentient

    Similar: sensate

    Related forms: sentience

  2. consciously perceiving
    • sentient of the intolerable load
    • a boy so sentient of his surroundings

    Similar: conscious

    Related forms: sentiency, sentience

sentient in a sentence

Scrabble score: 8 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with SE · words ending in NT · 8-letter words

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