ADJECTIVE | all | sentient, animate | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness |
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all | sentient | consciously perceiving |
Meaning | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. | |
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Example | "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence | |
Synonym | animate | |
Attribute of | sentience | The readiness to perceive sensations |
Narrower | sensate | Having physical sensation |
Opposite | insentient, insensate | Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation |
Spanish | sensible, sensitivo | |
Catalan | sensible, sensitiu | |
Nouns | sentience | state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness |
Meaning | consciously perceiving. | |
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Broader | conscious | knowing / knowing and perceiving |
Nouns | sentience | the readiness to perceive sensations |
sentience, sentiency | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended |
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