Sentient vs. Sophont

Sentientadjective

Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

Sentientadjective

Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.

Sentientadjective

Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

Sentientnoun

Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.

Sentientnoun

An intelligent, self-aware being.

Sentientadjective

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.

Sentientnoun

One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Sentientadjective

endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness;

Sentientadjective

consciously perceiving;

Sophontnoun

An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they have true artificial intelligence, rather than mere processing capacity.