## Examples
- Many people argue that all sentient animals deserve protection from cruelty.
- The film imagines a future in which sentient machines demand rights.
- In the story, humans and other sentients live side by side.

## Synonyms
- intelligence
- sapient
- sophont

## Antonyms
- automaton
- insensate

## Derived Forms
- cosentient
- hypersentient
- insentient
- nonsentient
- omnisentient
- presentient
- pseudosentient
- semisentient
- sentiently
- unsentient

## Related Forms
- conscient
- self-aware

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *sent-
- Root: sentiēns

## Etymology
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.

## AI Etymology
Sentient is from Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō. In present-day use, it can mean able to feel, sense, or experience things, or having human-like awareness and intelligence. Related forms include conscient, self-aware. Derived formations include cosentient, hypersentient, insentient, nonsentient, omnisentient.

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