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English Dictionary: Sentient	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sentient adj endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence Synonym(s): sentient, animate Antonym(s): insensate, insentient consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sentient \Sen"tient\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See {Sense}.] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient* extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sentient \Sen"tient\, n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient* being.