sentient
Able to experience
Sentient describes beings capable of feeling or perceiving—having subjective experiences rather than merely processing information.
A sentient creature can suffer, feel pleasure, or be aware of its surroundings: The debate over animal rights hinges on which creatures are sentient.
In science fiction, sentient often distinguishes thinking aliens or machines from mindless ones: They discovered sentient life on the planet.
Mentally present and alert
- self-awareConscious of own existence
- awareHaving knowledge of
- cognizantConscious of facts
- awakeNot in slumber
alert · mindful · perception · feeling · subjective · introspective · lucid · responsive
Currently having breath
- aliveHaving current existence
- creatureLiving, sentient entity
- organismLiving biological entity
- beingExisting as something
animate · vital · breathing · lifeform · fauna · flora · biotic · organic
Mental reasoning process
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- intellectMental reasoning capacity
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- knowledgeUnderstood facts and skills
wisdom · insight · comprehension · judgment · logic · learning · memory · conceptualization
Machine resembling a person
- robotProgrammable automated machine
- cyborgOrganic-mechanical hybrid entity
- artificialMade, not natural
- AISimulated cognitive processing
machine · synthetic · programmed · digital · neural · Turing · replicant · Skynet
Showing concern for sufferers
- sympatheticFeeling others' emotions
- caringShowing kind concern
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
emotional · feeling · benevolent · considerate · warmhearted · altruistic · merciful · gentle
conscious
Mentally present and alert
- self-awareConscious of own existence
- awareHaving knowledge of
- cognizantConscious of facts
awake · alert · mindful · perception · feeling · subjective · introspective · lucid · responsive · presence
living
Currently having breath
being · animate · vital · breathing · lifeform · fauna · flora · biotic · organic · animated
thinking
Mental reasoning process
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- intellectMental reasoning capacity
- understandingMental comprehension of something
knowledge · wisdom · insight · comprehension · judgment · logic · learning · memory · conceptualization · abstraction
android
Machine resembling a person
- robotProgrammable automated machine
- cyborgOrganic-mechanical hybrid entity
- artificialMade, not natural
AI · machine · synthetic · programmed · digital · neural · Turing · replicant · Skynet · HAL
compassionate
Showing concern for sufferers
- sympatheticFeeling others' emotions
- caringShowing kind concern
- understandingMental comprehension of something
kindness · emotional · feeling · benevolent · considerate · warmhearted · altruistic · merciful · gentle · humane
- beingsbeings, being, entities, entity, creatures
- Sci-Fi Termsfuturistic, alien, robotic, cybernetic, galactic
- awareaware, mindful, attentive, alert, vigilant
- animacyanimate, inanimate, living, nonliving, alive
- aliensE.T., grey alien, aliens, grey aliens, grays
- SCP Foundationanomaly, containment breach, Euclid, Safe, MTF
sentientinsentient
Lacking consciousness or awareness
nonsentient · unconscious · insensible · unaware · mindless
sentientinanimate
Not alive, never was
lifeless · inert · dead · non-living · mechanical
sentientmindless
Lacking thought or awareness
robotic · mechanical · instinctive · reflexive · algorithmic
- sentient beingThing with awareness
- sentient machinesTechnology with awareness
- sentient AISoftware with subjective experience
- sentient androidThinking humanoid machine