endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage.
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
source: Webster 1913
noun
One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
consciously perceiving
Sentient of the intolerable load. A boy so sentient of his surroundings.
