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sentient Definition

sen·tient (-s̸hənt, -s̸hē ənt)

adjective

of, having, or capable of feeling or perception; conscious

Etymology: L sentiens, prp. of sentire, to perceive by the senses: see sense

sentient Related Forms
sen·tiently adverb
sentient Synonyms

sentient

modif.

conscious, aware, alert, perceptive; see observant 1, sensitive 3.

sentient Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: The Yi or thought is pure energy and to become sentient with the energy is to become One with All being.
  • create: If they were not created sentient, then how did they sin?

Used with adjective complement

  • become: When something totally unexplainable happens and " Jodie " becomes sentient, she is elated.

Modifies a noun

  • being: The notes are not sentient beings they are just notes.
  • creature: Why should they give a moment to think about the sentient creatures destined to die inside a facility they are building?
  • discover: Sentient DISCOVER is now the first resource management system to meet the requirements of AAA Bobby Compliance.
  • specie: Simply to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of the members of one sentient species at the expense of the lives of others?
  • animal: The modern dairy cow is increasingly being treated more like a milk producing machine than a sentient animal.
  • race: Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the world's three sentient races.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: The notes are not sentient beings they are just notes.
  • fully: The animals which are widely accepted as children's pets are, of course, fully sentient.
  • also: Holy relics and ancient books are still around, yet there are also sentient robots.

Noun used with modifier

  • kind: What can I do that will enable me to rescue all these kind mother sentient beings from this perilous predicament?
  • mother: What can I do that will enable me to rescue all these kind mother sentient beings from this perilous predicament?
  • nonhuman: We cannot go further than this and say that salvation or liberation is available to nonhuman sentient beings.
  • living: This is seen to be harming a living sentient being.