Sapient vs Nonsapient - What's the difference?
sapient | nonsapient |
Possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned.
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 217:
(chiefly, science fiction) Possessing intelligence and self-awareness.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1962
, date = January
, first = Henry Beam
, last = Piper
, authorlink = H. Beam Piper
, title = Naudsonce
, magazine = Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction
, volume = 68
, issue = 5
, page = 9
, passage = It was inhabited by a sapient humanoid race, and some of them were civilized enough to put it in Class V, and Colonial Office doctrine on Class V planets was rigid.
}}
(chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1960
, first = Philip José
, last = Farmer
, authorlink = Philip José Farmer
, title = A Woman a Day
, page = 30
, passage = It seemed to him a possibility that the Cold War Corps of March might have contacted hitherto unknown sapients on some just discovered interstellar planet.
}}
As adjectives the difference between sapient and nonsapient
is that sapient is possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned while nonsapient is not sapient.As a noun sapient
is (chiefly|science fiction) an intelligent, self-aware being.sapient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In Europe I had been told by sapient academics that there wasn't really any class system in the United States: well, you couldn't prove that by the conditions in California's agribusinesses, or indeed its urban factories.
