| ADJECTIVE | all | sentient, animate | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | sentient | consciously perceiving |
| Meaning | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
|---|---|---|
| Examples |
| |
| Broader | conscious | knowing / knowing and perceiving |
| Nouns | sentience | the readiness to perceive sensations |
| sentience, sentiency | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | |
©2001-25 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact