sentient

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Thus, then, as body is the unsentient cause to which we are naturally prompted to refer a certain portion of our feelings, so mind may be described as the sentient _subject_ (in the scholastic sense of the term) of all feelings; that which has or feels them.

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  1. adjective Having sense perception; conscious: "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage” (T.E. Lawrence).
  2. adjective Experiencing sensation or feeling.

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  • "Some respect Where do your instruments say the sentient is, Phyll?" —  BEN BOVA Editor
  • "I will leave the apparent sentient, the tree, until last and destroy the other unlikely beings first." —  BEN BOVA Editor
  • If they're truly sentient, they'll get as far away from you as they can If they let our settlement expand, the day might come when they can't get far away from us Okay, then maybe they're building before you have a chance to plow up the ground for planting. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • The basic idea is of a semi-sentient, semi-explosive crystal line life form, living off calcium, silicon or cellulose, depending on its nature at the moment. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • Immortal, sentient, the ferns were one of the many lithic races collectively known as the First People. —  Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer 1 - Fire Dancer (v1.0)
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  1. Latin sentiēns, sentient-, present participle of sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French sentant = Spanish senciente = Portuguese sensiente = Italian sentiente, from Latin sentien (t -) s, present participle of sentire, feel, perceive: see scent, sense.
 

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