Sentient vs Sanction - What's the difference?
sentient | sanction |
Conscious or self-aware.
Experiencing sensation, thinking, thought, or feeling.
Possessing human-like knowledge and intelligence.
Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
(chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.
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, first = Philip José
, last = Farmer
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, 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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An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.
As nouns the difference between sentient and sanction
is that sentient is lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain while sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.As an adjective sentient
is conscious or self-aware.As a verb sanction is
to ratify; to make valid.sentient
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(en verb)- Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
