Sapient vs Omniscient - What's the difference?
sapient | omniscient |
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.
}}
Having total knowledge.
As an adjective sapient
is possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned.As a noun sapient
is (chiefly|science fiction) an intelligent, self-aware being.As a proper noun omniscient is
god.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.
Synonyms
* (possessing wisdom) wise, sagacious * (possessing self-awareness) intelligent, self-aware, sentientReferences
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* ----omniscient
English
Adjective
(-)- The story was narrated from an omniscient point of view.