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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.

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  1. a. 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.
  2. n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
  3. adj. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  4. adj. consciously perceiving
  5. 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.
  6. Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentientextremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs ortissues.
  7. j:100 a. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness s. consciously perceiving