sentient
/ˈsɛntɪənt
/ /ˈsɛnʃ(ə)nt /adjective
Able to perceive or feel things: she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms...
- The subject matter of the social sciences is conscious sentient beings who act out of choice.
- Most of us are aware that sentient life is not limited to two legs or even four.
- No sentient beings lived on the planet, so it would not be terrible if they colonized it.
Synonyms
feeling, capable of feeling, living, live;
conscious, aware, responsive, reactive
Derivatives
sentience
- The spider possesses a finely tuned sentience, harmonized to the vibrations of the web of its own making, the web of its own life by which it survives or starves.
- But as far as gaining consciousness and sentience, it is futile.
- So we were talking about regular everyday stuff like quantum physics and artificial intelligence in robots, and the parameters by which we set the standards of sentience in robots.
sentiency
sentiently
- But creatures - not just man - fight back sentiently, as well as instinctively.
- People sentiently and sensorily apprehend culture rather than merely think it or act it.
- In my opinion civilized debate is about being sentiently and considerately conscious in the first place.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin sentient- 'feeling', from the verb sentire.