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sentient [ˈsɛntɪənt] adj having the power of sense perception or sensation; conscious n
Rare a sentient person or thing [from Latin sentiēns feeling, from sentīre to perceive] sentiently adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| She was glowing from her morning toilet as only healthful youth can glow: there was gem-like brightness on her coiled hair and in her hazel eyes; there was warm red life in her lips; her throat had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the fur which itself seemed to wind about her neck and cling down her blue-gray pelisse with a tenderness gathered from her own, a sentient commingled innocence which kept its loveliness against the crystalline purity of the outdoor snow. Dancing began; I should have liked well enough to be introduced to some pleasing and intelligent girl, and to have freedom and opportunity to show that I could both feel and communicate the pleasure of social intercourse--that I was not, in short, a block, or a piece of furniture, but an acting, thinking, sentient man. When Master Bloomfield's amusements consist in injuring sentient creatures,' I answered, 'I think it my duty to interfere. |
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