Animate
Sentient
Sentient adjective - Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness.
Usage example: "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
Nearby Word: sentience
Both words in one sentence
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The lamp is sentient and animate, and it has a son, in the person of another, smaller desk lamp.
Source: Western Animation / Luxo Jr. -
In this book all toys are sentient and animate, and it's a "skin horse" who tells the rabbit how to become Real.
Source: Living Toys -
The Nutcracker, suddenly animate and sentient, rallies his forces to defeat them (in most versions Clara's thrown shoe turns the tide).
Source: Theatre / The Nutcracker
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