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Definitions: Sentient |
SentientAdjective1. Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence. 2. Consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sentient" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
Synonym: SentientSynonym: animate (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: insentient (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Adjective: feeling; Verb: sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling; n. |
Physical Sensibility | Adjective: sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious. (aware). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sentient |
| English words defined with "sentient": animate ♦ Hylopathism ♦ Insentiment ♦ Sentiently. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sentient": sentiment. (references) |
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| "Sentient" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Sentient" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "sentient": non-sentient, semi-sentient. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sentient | 38 |
sentient jet | 9 |
consulting sentient services | 8 |
sentient system | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sentient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i ndjeshëm (appreciable, delicate, fast, perceptible, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, sentimental, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, touchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واع (aware, circumspect, conscious, mindful, wise), حساس (compassionate, critical, emotional, feeling, fine, hypersensitive, impressionable, maudlin, responsive, sensational, sensible, sensitive, sentiment, sentimental, susceptible, sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tender-hearted, ticklish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съзнателен (advised, conscious, deliberate, intentional, knowing, premeditated, scrupulous, voluntary), съзнаващ (alive to), усещащ, чувствителен (apprehensive, fastidious, feeling, hair-trigger, high strung, impressionable, nice, sensible, sensitive, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cítící. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sensible (sensible, sensitive), doué de sensation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | empfindungsfähig (impressible), empfindend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευαίσθητοσ (delicate, emotional, impressionable, mushy, queasy, responsive, sensitive, susceptible, temperamental, thin-skinned, touchy), αισθητικόσ (aesthetic, aesthetician, sensible, sensitive, sensuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מר'יש (feeling), חישן (hesitant, sensor), חש, בעל תחוש". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | érzékeny (affective, highly strung, irritable, miffy, penetrable, respond, responsive, sensible, sensitive, skinless, susceptible, testy, thin-skinned, touchy), érző (feeling, fey, sensitive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senziente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 有情 (humanity, sentient beings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うじょう (cormorant fisherman, humanity, sentient beings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | er enney (recognized), ennaghtagh (emotional, sensitive, sentimental). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entientsay sensível (accessible, delicate, feeling, finicky, huffish, huffy, impressible, kid glove, novelettish, peseta, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sensory, sensuous, sentimental, sore, susceptible, tender, thinskinned, ticklish), senciente. (various references) simţitor (feeling, passible, sensible, tender), sensibil (appreciably, considerable, considerably, delicate, feeling, impressible, impressionable, marked, noticeably, painful, palpable, passible, responsive, scrupulous, sensible, sensitive, susceptible, tangible, tender, thin-skinned, touchy). (various references) чувствующий. (various references) osetljiv (dainty, fast, pettish, queasy, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, susceptible, tetchy, thin-skinned), osetan (appreciable, noticeable). (various references) sensitivo, sensible (adoptive, alive, amenable, appreciative, appreciatory, feeling, noticeable, perceptible, regrettable, responsive, sensitive, susceptive, tangible, tender). (various references) sinnes- (mental, sensational, sensory, sensuous), känslo- (emotional, emotive), kännande, förnimmande. (various references) hisli, duygulu (emotional, emotive, feeling, passibile, sensitive, sentimental, soulful, susceptible, thin-skinned), duyarlı (capable, delicate, emotional, feeling, hypersensitive, impressible, impressionable, liable, reactive, responsive, sensible, sensitive, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned), önsezileri güçlü (prescient). (various references) чутливий (affectional, feeling, high strung, highly strung, hightoned, impressionable, nice, responsive, rocky, sensible, sensitive, sensory, susceptible, ticklish). (various references) có tri giác, có cảm giác. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "sentient": sentiently, sentients. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sentient": dissentient, insentient, presentient. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sentient": dissentients. (additional references) | |
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"Sentient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanitact, satient, sencient, sengient, senient, sensient, sentiant, sentiens, sentients, sentinent, sention. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: intense, intents, tennies, tennist. | |
-2 letters: intent, sennet, sennit, sitten, tenets, tennis, tentie. | |
-3 letters: inset, neist, nenes, netts, nines, nites, seine, sente, senti, stein, stint, teens, tenet, tense, tents, tines, tints. | |
-4 letters: inns, nene, nest, nets, nett, nine, nite, nits, seen, sene, sent, sett, sine, site, snit, stet, teen, tees, tens, tent, test, tets, ties. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: intensest, intestine, penitents, sententia, sentients, sentiment. | |
+2 letters: ancientest, bentonites, detentions, enlistment, entertains, inexistent, insentient, intentness, interments, intestines, investment, ninetieths, retentions, sententiae, sentential, sentiently, sentiments, tenantries, uninterest. | |
+3 letters: detainments, dissentient, enlistments, entailments, enticements, incitements, indecentest, innocentest, integuments, intendments, intenerates, intensities, interesting, internments, intertwines, intumescent, investments, lieutenants, mignonettes, nattinesses, nineteenths, nonentities, nonexistent, noninterest, nuttinesses, presentient, sententious, sentimental, septentrion, snakebitten, spinnerette, tendentious, tiemannites, turpentines, uninterests. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 74 69 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. - .. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n t i e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0074 0069 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371808675718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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