sentient English

Meaning sentient meaning

What does sentient mean?

Definitions in simple English

sentient Adjective

— If something or someone is sentient, they are conscious or aware.

— If something or someone is sentient, they have sensation or feeling.

sentient Noun

— A sentient is a living being that is able to feel sensation, like pain.

sentient

— adjective endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage — T.E.Lawrence

— adjective consciously perceiving sentient of the intolerable load a boy so sentient of his surroundings — W.A.White

Synonyms sentient synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sentient?

sentient English » English

animate

sensitive

sensible

feeling

perceptive

living

conscious

aware

alive

witting

well-read

touchy

thin skinned

temperamental

susceptible

sensuous

sensate

responsive

rational

queasy

privy

mushy

knowing

impressionable

emotional

delicate

cognizant

cognisant

alert

aesthetic

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How do I use sentient in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Humans are sentient beings.

Let's respect the animals, because they are sentient beings.

Sentient beings include humans and animals.

How do you know I'm a sentient being?

You would think sentient beings capable of compassion wouldn't be such bloodthirsty barbarians.

Every sentient creature deserves compassion.

Movie subtitles

It probably comes from some sentient thing, or a machine operated by it.

In the vast regions of the universe you are not the only sentient beings who live in it.

Sentient life form.

Sentient life forms approaching.

You will be taken to stand trial for your crimes against the whole of sentient creation.

The anaesthetic has worn off and the creature is now fully sentient.

As many of you suspected, when our ship passed through the edge of. this, it accidentally carried away a sentient being.

Frantic at being taken from its homeworld, and recognizing you as sentient, it pleaded for help, but in ways you couldn't understand.

Even they wouldn't hunt a sentient being!

He is sentient only because we made him sentient.

It is Class-M, but shows no life forms, sentient or otherwise.

And was the sole committee member to oppose my entrance, because I was not a sentient being.

Commander, is your contention that Lt Cmdr Data is not a sentient being and thus not entitled to all the rights reserved for all life forms in this Federation?

I merely suggest that a regard for sentient life.

Data is not sentient, no.

Prove to the court I am sentient.

We all know you're sentient.

So I am sentient but Cmdr Data is not?

Why am I sentient?

It's a shame we can't tell if they're sentient.

Is there any evidence they're sentient?

The only sentient android in existence!

It doesn't seem particularly sentient right now.

To make another functioning, sentient android.

The variety of sentient life forms is infinite.

Any sentient form onboard is to be arrested on arrival.

Remember, Commander, a sentient who can control a time capsule is a danger.

K9: Sentient life form.

We haven't seen any evidence that it is sentient.

What's the third principle of sentient life?

Perhaps because we are familiar with the third principle of sentient life.

News and current affairs

The best response to this argument is that the wrongness of causing needless suffering to sentient beings is not culturally specific.

Long before Western philosophers included animals in their ethics, Chinese philosophers like Zhuangzi said that love should permeate relations not only between humans, but between all sentient beings.