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Sentient

//ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

    "Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans."

  2. 2
    Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
  3. 3
    Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence. broadly

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness wordnet
  2. 2
    consciously perceiving wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
  2. 2
    An intelligent, self-aware being. broadly

    "The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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