sentience
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sen·tience
(sĕn′shəns, -shē-əns, -tē-əns)n.
1. The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.
2. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.
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sentience
(ˈsɛnʃəns) orsentiency
n
1. the state or quality of being sentient; awareness
2. sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling
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sen•tience
(ˈsɛn ʃəns)also sen′tien•cy,
n.
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
[1830–40]
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Noun | 1. | sentience - state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his 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" 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 |
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