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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness;
- Example: "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
[syn: sentient, animate]

2. consciously perceiving;
- Example: "sentient of the intolerable load"
- Example: "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sentient adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate, insentient] 2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "sentient": alive, alive to, au courant, awake, aware, cognizant, conscious, conversant, emotionable, feeling, impressible, impressionable, impressive, knowing, open, perceptive, reactive, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, susceptible, susceptive, witting