meaning of sentient
1. 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.
2. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on Gods stage"- T. E. Lawrence
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