Adjective: sentient sen-sh(ee-)unt [N. Amer], sen-tee-unt [Brit]
- Consciously perceiving
"sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"
- Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage";
- animate
See also: conscious, sensate, sentience
Encyclopedia: Sentient