sophont
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈsoʊfɑnt/
Noun

sophont (plural sophonts)

  1. (chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they have true artificial intelligence, rather than mere processing capacity.
Synonyms
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