sentient

conscient

Capable de percevoir et de comprendre ce qui se passe autour de soi.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : conscious, aware

Contraires : unconscious

Expressions courantes : sentient being, sentient creature, sentient robot

doué de sensibilité, sensible

Capable d’éprouver des sensations comme la douleur ou le plaisir.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : feeling

Contraires : insentient

Expressions courantes : sentient animal, sentient life, sentient creature

être sensible

Être vivant capable d’éprouver des sensations, notamment la douleur.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : sentient being

Expressions courantes : a sentient, every sentient