sentient

Able to notice and understand what is happening around you.

• The story features a sentient robot.
• Are these creatures sentient?
• She imagined a world full of sentient machines.

Similar words: conscious, aware

Opposites: unconscious

Common phrases: sentient being, sentient creature, sentient robot

Able to feel things such as pain or pleasure.

• Dogs are sentient animals.
• The law protects sentient creatures from unnecessary suffering.
• Can a machine ever become sentient and feel pain?

Similar words: feeling

Opposites: insentient

Common phrases: sentient animal, sentient life, sentient creature

A living being that can feel things, including pain.

• Every sentient on the planet could feel pain.
• The aliens treated all sentients with respect.
• No sentient should suffer for their experiment.

Similar words: sentient being

Common phrases: a sentient, every sentient