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SENTIENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Example:
the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage
Synonyms:
animate; sentient
Classified under:
Similar:
sensate (having physical sensation)
Attribute:
sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)
Antonym:
insentient (devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation)
Derivation:
sentience (state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Consciously perceiving
Example:
a boy so sentient of his surroundings
Classified under:
Similar:
conscious (knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts)
Derivation:
sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)
sentience; sentiency (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended)
