Definition of Sentient

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Sentient

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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Sentient Quotations

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Grace Slick

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun

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

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

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