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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

alive, alive to, au courant, awake, aware, cognizant, conscious, conversant, emotionable, feeling, impressible, impressionable, impressive, knowing, open, perceptive, reactive, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, susceptible, susceptive, witting

Dictionary Results for sentient:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sentient
    adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
           living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's
           stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant:
           insensate, insentient]
    2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load";
       "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of
   sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n.
   One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
   [1913 Webster]

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