sentient

adjective

1. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

- the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage

Similar word(s): sensate, animate

2. consciously perceiving

- sentient of the intolerable load

- a boy so sentient of his surroundings

Similar word(s): conscious

noun

1. Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.

2. (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.