Sentient

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of
     sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See {Sense}.]
     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.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n.
     One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sentient
       adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
              living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's
              stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {animate}] [ant: {insentient}]
       2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load";
          "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "sentient":
     alive, alive to, au courant, awake, aware, cognizant, conscious,
     conversant, emotionable, feeling, impressible, impressionable,
     impressive, knowing, open, perceptive, reactive, receptive,
     responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to,
     susceptible, susceptive, witting