Animate and Sentient

Animate

Animate adjective - Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness.

Sentient is a synonym for animate in living topic. In some cases you can use "Sentient" instead an adjective "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

Animate is a synonym for sentient. You can use "Animate" instead an adjective "Sentient".

Nearby Word: sentience

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Luxo Jr. The lamp is sentient and animate, and it has a son, in the person of another, smaller desk lamp.
  • Living Toys 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
  • Theatre / The Nutcracker The Nutcracker, suddenly animate and sentient, rallies his forces to defeat them (in most versions Clara's thrown shoe turns the tide).
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