sentient
sen·tient
adjective
1.
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
- “the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God”
2.
consciously perceiving
- “sentient of the intolerable load”
- “a boy so sentient of his surroundings” W.A.White
Origin
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
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