{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY March 3, 2019----sentient

WORD OF THE DAY March 3, 2019

sentient    adjective | SEN-shee-unt     Definition   1 : responsive to or conscious of sense impressions   2 :  having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge : aware   3 : finely sensitive in perception or feeling   Scroll down for more about sentient      TRENDING NOW: churlish perdition trenchant con man SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 3/1/19       'Gormless' — Video Word of the Day 3/1/2019     Ye Olde Nincompoop       Your Grandparents' Dirty Dancing         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   February 2019 Words of the Day Quiz   The "we still have another month of winter" quiz     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   You may have guessed that sentient has something to do with the senses. The initial spelling sent- or sens- is often a giveaway for such a meaning. A sentient being is one who perceives and responds to sensations of whatever kind—sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. Sentient ultimately comes from the Latin verb sentire, which means "to feel" or "to perceive," and is related to the noun sensus, meaning "sense." A few related English words are sentiment and sentimental, which have to do with emotions, sensual, which relates to more physical sensations, and the trio of assent, consent, and dissent, which involve one's expressions of agreement (or disagreement in the case of dissent) in thought and feeling with another.     Examples of SENTIENT   "Frightened of the potential that a vast automated intelligence represents, we often portray sentient intelligences as the equivalent of machine gods—ones that, in many cases, find us wanting." — Mark Hachman, PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2013   "Diana's hippie-Wiccan aunts … live in one of the tale's more charming inventions: a funky, sentient house that rattles the crockery when it's irritated and supplies flashbacks by conjuring up life-size holographic scenes in situ." — Mike Hale, The New York Times, 18 Jan. 2019   Name That Antonym   Fill in the blanks to complete an antonym of sentient: o _ _ iv _ o _ s.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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