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Word Meanings - SENTIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. , especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.

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  • SENSITIVE
    1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • SENTIENTLY
    In a sentient or perceptive way.
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • AFFECTER
    One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
  • AFFECTIVE
    1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
  • AFFECTIONATED
    Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
  • AFFECTIONATE
    1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
  • AFFECTEDLY
    1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak.
  • AFFECTEDNESS
    Affectation.
  • IMPRESSIBLE
    Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive. -- Im*press"i*ble*ness, n. -- Im*press"i*bly, adv.
  • AFFECTIBLE
    That may be affected. Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.
  • AFFECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
  • AFFECT
    + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay. 2. To influence
  • AFFECTATION
    1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty
  • AFFECTIONATENESS
    The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
  • AFFECTED
    Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation. (more info) 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. His affected Hercules. Chapman. 2. Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
  • MISAFFECTED
    Ill disposed.
  • MISAFFECTION
    An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
  • UNEASILY
    In an uneasy manner.
  • DISAFFECTED
    Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.

 

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