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pseudosentient

pseudosentient adjective: seemingly sentient but not truly so.

Adjective

pseudosentient (not comparable)

  1. Seemingly sentient but not truly so.
    • Nearly all computer scientists agree that AI chatbots are pseudosentient rather than sentient.

Origin of pseudosentient

From pseudo- + sentient.

Questions about pseudosentient

What does pseudosentient mean?
Pseudosentient means seemingly sentient but not truly so.
What part of speech is pseudosentient?
Pseudosentient is an adjective.

Words near pseudosentient in the dictionary

  1. pseudoselectors
  2. pseudosensitive
  3. pseudosentence
  4. pseudosentences
  5. pseudosentience
  6. pseudosentient
  7. pseudosepta
  8. pseudoseptum
  9. pseudosequence
  10. pseudosequences
  11. pseudoservice

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