sentient

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɛn.ti.ənt/    美 /ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/|/ˈsɛn.ʃənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
  2. An intelligent, self-aware being. broadly
    — The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
形容词 adj.
  1. Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
    — Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.
  2. Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
  3. Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence. broadly
    — While I had heard such talk before, I had always felt that sentient robots were in the realm of science fiction. But now, from someone I respected [Ray Kurzweil], I was hearing a strong argument that they were a near-term possibility.

词形变化

more sentient comparative most sentient superlative sentients plural

词汇关系

近义词
intelligence sentient sapient sophont
反义词
automaton insensate
下位词
artificial intelligence Homo sapiens human person
衍生词
cosentient hypersentient insentient nonsentient omnisentient presentient pseudosentient semisentient sentiently unsentient
相关词
conscient self-aware
并列词
sapient
部分词
anima apprehension awareness consciousness mind knowledge perception sense sentience sapience self-awareness witfulness

词源

词源 1
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
词源 2
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
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