"sentient" in the adjective sense
1. sentient, animate
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
2. sentient
consciously perceiving
"sentient of the intolerable load"
"a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
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