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sentient

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sen·tient  (snshnt, -sh-nt)
adj.
1. Having sense perception; conscious: "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage" (T.E. Lawrence).
2. Experiencing sensation or feeling.

[Latin sentins, sentient-, present participle of sentre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

sentient·ly adv.

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
Adj.1.sentient - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
insensate, insentient - devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"
2.sentient - consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
conscious - knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed"

sentient
adjective feeling, living, conscious, live, sensitive, reactive sentient creatures, human and nonhuman alike
Translations
sentient [ˈsenʃənt] ADJsensitivo, sensible
sentient [ˈsɛntiənt] adj [being, creature] → doué(e) de sens
sentient
sentient [ˈsɛntɪənt] adj (frm) (creature, being) → sensibile, senziente
sentient [ˈsɛntɪənt] adj (frm) (creature, being) → sensibile, senziente


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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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