Sentient

//ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt//

Synonyms for "sentient" (39 found)

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11 relation types

Translations

57 translations across 22 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • حَسَّاس adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • عَاقِل adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)

Armenian

4 entries
  • բանական adj (science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence)
  • բանականություն ունեցող adj (science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence)
  • գիտակից adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • զգայուն adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • съзнателен adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • усещащ adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 感受的 adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Czech

4 entries
  • cítící adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • schopný vnímat adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • vnímající adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • vnímavý adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)

Dutch

2 entries
  • bewust adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • met gevoel adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Finnish

3 entries
  • tietoinen adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • tunteva adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • älyllinen adj (science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence)

French

4 entries
  • conscient adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • doué de sensation adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • sensible adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • sentient adj (science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence)

German

1 entries
  • fühlend adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Greek

4 entries
  • αισθητήριος adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • αισθητηριοσυνειδησιακή adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • αισθητηριοσυνειδησιακό adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • αισθητηριοσυνειδησιακός adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • érzó adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Italian

1 entries
  • senziente adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Japanese

4 entries
  • 意識する adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • 意識する adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • 感覚を持つ adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • 感覚力のある adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Malay

1 entries
  • berperasaan adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • sansende adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)

Polish

1 entries
  • przytomny adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • senciente adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Romanian

1 entries
  • conștient adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Russian

4 entries
  • ощуща́ющий adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • разу́мный adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • разу́мный adj (science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence)
  • созна́тельный adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)

Spanish

4 entries
  • con sentidos adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)
  • consciente adj (able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties)
  • sapiente adj (science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence)
  • sensible adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Swedish

1 entries
  • kännande adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • lantad adj (experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Maybe in another universe, sentient beings, as well as their very environment, are incorporeal.

Source: tatoeba (1466046)

Sentient beings throughout the Galactic Empire could send telepathic messages across vast distances.

Source: tatoeba (1469180)

During centuries of space exploration, there were strange, unexplained anomalies that were linked to possible nonhuman sentient life.

Source: tatoeba (1592705)

He thinks that they are not sentient beings.

Source: tatoeba (1956846)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.