Vocabulary Word
Word: sentient
Definition: capable of sensation and conscious; aware; sensitive; Ex. sentient creature; N. sentience
Definition: capable of sensation and conscious; aware; sensitive; Ex. sentient creature; N. sentience
Sentences Containing 'sentient'
The artistic intelligence is not interested in things from this standpoint of mechanical accuracy, but in the effect of observation on the living consciousness the sentient individual in each of us.
Science demands that phenomena be observed with the unemotional accuracy of a weighing machine, while artistic accuracy demands that things be observed by a sentient individual recording the sensations produced in him by the phenomena of life.
I FALL INTO DISGRACE If the room to which my bed was removed were a sentient thing that could give evidence, I might appeal to it at this day--who sleeps there now, I wonder!--to bear witness for me what a heavy heart I carried to it.
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