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Sentient

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.

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Conscious 84% connected

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

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Conscious 84% connected

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

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Sensate 84% connected

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

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Sensate 84% connected

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

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Sentience 74% connected

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Sentience 74% connected

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Sentiency 74% connected

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.

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Sentiency 74% connected

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.

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Animate 92% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Acroanaesthesia noun · 78% connection

loss of sensation in the extremities

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Acroanesthesia noun · 78% connection

loss of sensation in the extremities

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Anserated adjective · 78% connection

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

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Antenna noun · 78% connection

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually fo…

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Apperception noun · 78% connection

The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensifie…

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Conception noun · 78% connection

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.

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Diagnosis noun · 78% connection

Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character.

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Differentiation noun · 78% connection

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…

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Epiperipheral adjective · 78% connection

Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at…

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Exert verb · 78% connection

To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as,…

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Feel verb · 78% connection

To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describ…

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Feeling noun · 78% connection

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

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Flower noun · 78% connection

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the or…

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Gelatine noun · 78% connection

Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous coll…

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Gross superl. · 78% connection

Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.

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Insensitive adjective · 78% connection

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

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Insentiment adjective · 78% connection

Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception.

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Inspiration noun · 78% connection

The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevat…

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