sentient Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
animate.
- the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
adjective satellite consciously perceiving
- sentient of the intolerable load
- a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White

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.