Sekirov Dictionary

sentient

UK /ˈsɛn.ti.ənt/US /ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

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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.
Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
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Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
- Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years. — 2002

noun2

Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
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An intelligent, self-aware being.
- The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers. — 1965

forms

sentients · more sentient · most sentient

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