sentient

Speech parts

1. sentient - Noun

2. sentient - Adjective

3. sentient - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

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I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself. Peter F. Hamilton

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. Vernor Vinge

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. Frances Wright

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. Gary L. Francione

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. Gary L. Francione

For the moment I can think of nothing- except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world. Henry Miller

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