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sentient
- /ˈsɛn.ti.ənt/ UK
- /ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/ US
- /ˈsɛn.ʃənt/ US
Where it comes from
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
adjective more sentient · most sentient
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Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.
Similar: aware
- Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
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Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
While I had heard such talk before, I had always felt that sentient robots were in the realm of science fiction. But now, from someone I respected [Ray Kurzweil], I was hearing a strong argument that they were a near-term possibility.
Similar: sapient, intelligent, sentient, self-aware
noun sentients
- Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
- An intelligent, self-aware being. The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
Similar: intelligence, sentient, sapient, sophont · Opposite: automaton, insensate
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: conscious, sensate, animate, intelligent, sensible, sensitive, reasonable, susceptible, clever, responsive, smart, felt, omnisentient, scious, panexperiential, cosentient
Translations
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adj experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling
| Español | sensible, con sentidos, sintiente, sentiente (DPD, Fundéu) |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 意識する ishiki suru, 感覚力のある kankaku-ryoku no aru, 知覚する chikaku suru, 敏感な binkan na |
| 中文 | 感受的 |
| Português | senciente |
| Français | sensible, doué de sensation |
| Deutsch | fühlend |
| Italiano | senziente |
| Ελληνικά | αισθητηριοσυνειδησιακός aisthitiriosyneidisiakós, αισθητηριοσυνειδησιακή aisthitiriosyneidisiakí, αισθητηριοσυνειδησιακό aisthitiriosyneidisiakó, αισθητήριος aisthitírios |
| Română | conștient |
| Русский | чу́вствующий čúvstvujuščij, ощуща́ющий oščuščájuščij |
| العربية | حَسَّاس ḥassās |
adj able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties
| Español | consciente, sentiente (DPD, Fundéu), sintiente |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 感覚を持つ ishiki o motsu, 意識する ishiki suru, 敏感な |
| Français | conscient |
| Ελληνικά | ευαίσθητος evaísthitos |
| Русский | разу́мный razúmnyj, созна́тельный soznátelʹnyj |
| العربية | عَاقِل ʕāqil |
Talk about this word "sentient." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sentient. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sentient. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sentient "sentient." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sentient.Cite this
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title = {sentient},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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