sentient

About 1.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

   Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.

2. adjective Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
3. adjective Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
4. noun Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
5. noun An intelligent, self-aware being.

Similar words

conscious sensate animate intelligent sensible sensitive reasonable susceptible clever responsive

Often followed by

beings being and creatures life existence soul creature principle

Word family

sentiently