The meaning of Sentient and additional information.

Sentient(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.

Sentient(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Sentiently(adv.) In a sentient or perceptive way.