Meaning

3 senses
  1. Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

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

    Obviously, other morally relevant considerations would apply to the case of a sentient fetus, as by acquiring sentience it acquires interests and moral status.

    fühlend

    чу́вствующийčúvstvujuščij, ощуща́ющийoščuščájuščij

  2. Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.

    разу́мныйrazúmnyj, созна́тельныйsoznátelʹnyj

  3. (broadly)Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

    разу́мныйrazúmnyj

More definitions
  • endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  • consciously perceiving

Examples

20 sentences
  1. How do I know you're a sentient being?

    Звідки я знаю, що ти — розумна істота?

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  2. Tom is a sentient cactus.

    Том — розумний кактус.

    deTom ist ein empfindungsfähiger Kaktus.

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  3. I'm afraid of pigs becoming sentient.

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  4. It's a sentient being, just like you.

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  5. He thinks that they are not sentient beings.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling:
able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

more sentient, most sentient
Comparativemore sentient Lesson
Superlativemost sentient Lesson

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness:animate

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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