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sentient |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses See {Sense}.] 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sentient adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {animate}] [ant: {insentient}] 2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
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