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
- 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
- consciously perceiving
- sentient of the intolerable load
- a boy so sentient of his surroundings
Similar: conscious
sentient in a sentence
- How do I know that anyone else is a sentient being?
- It's a sentient being, just like you.
- I'm afraid of pigs becoming sentient.
- Raccoons have become sentient.
- You would think sentient beings capable of compassion wouldn't be such bloodthirsty barbarians.
Scrabble score: 8 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with SE · words ending in NT · 8-letter words
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