Chiefly Theology. Capable of suffering or feeling; susceptible to sensation or emotion. Cf. patible, adj.

Pertaining to, or fitted for, the laying hold of sensuous or mental impressions.

Capable of sensory perception; that can feel. Formerly also: †conscious, sentient (obsolete). Also in extended use.

Having the faculty of sensation or sense perception; = sensitive, adj. 2. Of persons and animals and their nature or mode of existence. Now chiefly…

Capable of suffering, passible. Obsolete.

Percipient; perceptive (of). Obsolete.

Having the power of sensation (sensation, n. 1b); sensitive (sensitive, adj. 2); sentient. Contrasted with insensate (insensate, adj. 1).

Capable of sensation. Obsolete. rare.

Sentient.

Capable of or liable to suffering or pain; passible. Also (occasionally): representing or relating to suffering.

That feels or is capable of feeling; having the power or function of sensation or of perception by the senses.

Capable of sensation; sensitive.

Capable of or involved in sensory perception.

Now chiefly Science. Characterized by or capable of perceiving; relating to or having perception; instrumental to perception.

That perceives or is capable of perceiving; conscious; perceptive, discerning.

That perceives or is capable of perceiving. Formerly also: †discerning, acute, wise.