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Immersion vs Sentient - What's the difference?

immersion | sentient |

As nouns the difference between immersion and sentient

is that immersion is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed while sentient is lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.

As an adjective sentient is

conscious or self-aware.

immersion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
  • the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
  • (British, Ireland, informal) an immersion heater
  • (mathematics) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
  • (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion.

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    sentient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Conscious or self-aware.
  • Experiencing sensation, thinking, thought, or feeling.
  • Possessing human-like knowledge and intelligence.

    • Antonyms

    * insensate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
  • (chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1965 , first = Philip José , last = Farmer , authorlink = Philip José Farmer , title = , passage = The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers. }}

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