sentience

sen·tience  (snshns, -sh-ns)

n.

1. The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.

2. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.

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sentience [ˈsɛnʃəns], sentiency

n

1. the state or quality of being sentient; awareness

2. sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sentience - state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" awareness consciousness - an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; "he lost consciousness"
	2.	sentience - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" sensory faculty, sentiency, sense, sensation faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind sense modality, sensory system, modality - a particular sense sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
	3.	sentience - the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart animateness, liveness, aliveness - the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life insentience - lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations

Translations

sentience

n → Empfindungsvermögen nt; the sentience of approaching death → das Vorgefühl des nahenden Todes