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- Dictionarysentient/ˈsɛnʃnt/
adjective
- 1. able to perceive or feel things: "she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms"
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The meaning of SENTIENT is capable of sensing or feeling : conscious of or responsive to the sensations of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling. How to use sentient in a sentence. Did you know?
adjective. formal uk / ˈsen.ti.ənt / / ˈsen.ʃ ə nt / us / ˈsen.ʃ ə nt / Add to word list. able to experience feelings: It is hard for a sentient person to understand how any parents could treat their child so badly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feelings - general words. atmospherically. aura. come away. emotionalism. feeling. gut.
the quality of being able to experience feelings: Why are humans not willing to accept the full sentience of other animals? Research on animal sentience is beginning to inform approaches to animal welfare. See. sentient. Fewer examples.
Definition of sentient adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Noun. Filter. adjective. Of, having, or capable of feeling or perception; conscious. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Experiencing sensation or feeling. American Heritage Medicine. Similar definitions. (chiefly in science fiction) Possessing human-like knowledge and intelligence. Wiktionary. Synonyms: animate. sensitive. sensible.
able to experience feelings: It is hard for a sentient person to understand how any parents could treat their child so badly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feelings - general words. atmospherically. aura. come away. emotional. emotionalism.
Someone sentient is able to feel things, or sense them. Sentient usually occurs in phrases like " sentient beings" and " sentient creatures," making it clear that things that don’t have life don’t have feelings. Explain that to a pet rock.
1. having the power of perception by the senses; conscious. 2. characterized by sensation and consciousness. noun. 3. a person or thing that is sentient. 4. archaic. the conscious mind.
Sentient definition: having the power of perception by the senses; conscious.. See examples of SENTIENT used in a sentence.
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 sentiēns, sentient-, present participle of sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots .] sen′tient·ly adv.
