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Sentient vs Sentimental - What's the difference?

sentient | sentimental |

As adjectives the difference between sentient and sentimental

is that sentient is conscious or self-aware while sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.

As a noun sentient

is lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.

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. }}

    Synonyms

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    sentimental

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic

    • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

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