sentient

English

From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.

sentient (comparative more sentient, superlative most sentient)

Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
Synonym: sensate
Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
Antonym: insensate
(loosely, chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
Synonyms: sapient; see also Thesaurus:self-aware
- 2002, André Bormanis, “Silent Enemy”, in Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Jonathan Archer:
  Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.
- 2022 June 14, Toby Walsh, “Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines”, in The Guardian‎:
  Lemoine has been placed on “paid administrative leave” after publishing a transcript of conversations with LaMDA which he claims support his belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child. […] While Lemoine no doubt genuinely believes his claims, LaMDA is likely to be as sentient as a traffic light.
- 2022 August 5, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:
  After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher […] Dr. Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realized this was nonsense.

experiencing sensation, perceiving, thinking, or feeling

Armenian: զգայուն (hy) (zgayun)
Bulgarian: усещащ (bg) (useštašt)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 感受的
Finnish: tunteva (fi)
French: sensible (fr), doué de sensation
Greek: αισθητήριος (el) m (aisthitírios)
Italian: senziente (it) (literary)
Japanese: 意識する (ja) (いしきする, ishiki suru), 感覚力のある (かんかくりょくのある, kankaku-ryoku no aru), 知覚する (ja) (ちかくする, chikaku suru), 敏感な (ja) (びんかんな, binkan na)
Malay: berperasaan
Portuguese: senciente (pt)
Romanian: conștient (ro) m
Spanish: sensible (es), con sentidos
Tagalog: lantad

able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties

Armenian: գիտակից (hy) (gitakicʿ)
Bulgarian: съзнателен (bg) (sǎznatelen)
Dutch: bewust (nl)
Finnish: tietoinen (fi)
French: conscient (fr) m
Greek: ευαίσθητος (el) m (evaísthitos)
Japanese: 感覚を持つ (いしきをもつ, ishiki o motsu), 意識する (ja) (いしきする, ishiki suru), 敏感な (ja) (びんかんな)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sansende
Polish: przytomny (pl)
Spanish: consciente (es)

science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence

Armenian: բանական (hy) (banakan), բանականություն ունեցող (banakanutʿyun unecʿoł)
Finnish: älyllinen (fi)
French: sentient (fr) m
Russian: разу́мный (ru) (razúmnyj)

sentient (plural sentients)

Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
(chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sentient
- 1965, Philip José Farmer, The Maker of Universes:
  The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.

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