sentient

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Able to feel, sense, or experience things.

   Many people argue that all sentient animals deserve protection from cruelty.

2. 2
   adj

   Having human-like awareness and intelligence.

   The film imagines a future in which sentient machines demand rights.

3. 3
   noun

   An intelligent, self-aware being.

   In the story, humans and other sentients live side by side.

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

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