What is the meaning of sentient?

adjective

  • Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness."the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage- T. E. Lawrence
  • Consciously perceiving. "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings- W. A. White
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