sentient
/ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
adj
noun
Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
noun
An intelligent, self-aware being.
Example Sentences
- "Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans."
- "Obviously, other morally relevant considerations would apply to the case of a sentient fetus, as by acquiring sentience it acquires interests and moral status."
- "While I had heard such talk before, I had always felt that sentient robots were in the realm of science fiction. But now, from someone I respected [Ray Kurzweil], I was hearing a strong argument that they were a near-term possibility."
- "Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years."
- "[Blake] Lemoine has been placed on “paid administrative leave” after publishing a transcript of conversations with LaMDA which he claims support his belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child. […] While Lemoine no doubt genuinely believes his claims, LaMDA is likely to be as sentient as a traffic light."
- "After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher[…]Dr. Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realized this was nonsense."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/
- British English: /ˈsɛn.ti.ənt/