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Type Words
Synonyms animate
Derivation sentience


the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage.
Type Words
Derivation sentience, sentiency


sentient of the intolerable load.
a boy so sentient of his surroundings.

Examples of sentient

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In Egyptian belief, this cosmos was inhabited by three types of sentient beings.
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Drukpa lineage continues to thrive and flourish and benefit all sentient beings.
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The bike ride back to the rumbling hostel inched me back toward mostly sentient.
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In late 2076, some of these machines became sentient and stopped obeying orders.
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Every sentient Republican has been trying to figure out how to explain it away.
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A sentient being is sentient regardless of which species it happens to belong to.
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Come to think of it, I wonder how many sentient people will ever see this list.
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She is not prepared to write off an entire sentient race as an acceptable cost.
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According to Buddhism, sentient beings made of pure consciousness are possible.
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More examples
  • Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
  • Consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
  • (sentience) awareness: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"
  • (sentiency) sense: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
  • Sentient is a first-person adventure developed by Psygnosis and released on the PlayStation in 1997. It was also released for the PC the same year.
  • Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive. The term is used in science and philosophy, and in the study of artificial intelligence. Sentience is used in the study of consciousness to describe the ability to have sensations or experiences, known to Western philosophers as "qualia". ...
  • Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain; Conscious or aware; Experiencing sensation or feeling; Possessing human-like intelligence
  • (sentience) The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness
  • (sentiency) The property of having sensation; sentience