Definitions
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Word origin
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
Used in a sentence
“Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.”
“Obviously, other morally relevant considerations would apply to the case of a sentient fetus, as by acquiring sentience it acquires interests and moral status.”
“Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Able to feel”8 letters
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