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Meaning of 'sentient' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sentient [ a.]
- 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.
2 . Sentient [ n.]
- One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Meaning of 'sentient' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sentient [ a]
Meaning (1):
- endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Example in sentence:
  • the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage
2 . sentient [ s]
Meaning (2):
- consciously perceiving
Example in sentence:
  • a boy so sentient of his surroundings;
  • sentient of the intolerable load

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