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Sound
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From sopho- + -ont. First used in the 1966 works by Poul Anderson, coined by his wife Karen Anderson.
