sentience

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sen·tience

(sĕn′shəns, -shē-əns, -tē-əns)

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

2. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.

sentience

(ˈsɛnʃəns) or

sentiency

1. the state or quality of being sentient; awareness

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

sen•tience

(ˈsɛn ʃəns)

also sen′tien•cy,

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" 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

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This opinion, in its general form, was that of the sentience of all vegetable things.

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Each day he tried the lifting of greater weight, and it seemed almost as if the machine had a sentience of its own, which was increasing with the obstacles placed before it.

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Not a thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate, so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a vitality of its own.

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We'll be examining how important EU principles are, such as the precautionary approach and animal sentience (the feelings and emotions of animals), and considering if and how these should be retained.

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Mr Gove published a draft bill in December that would enshrine animal sentience into UK law post-Brexit and introduce jail sentences of up to five years for animal abusers.

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He said Imran Khan played with the sentience of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by befooling them on making new Pakistan.

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The Plan recognises the sentience of animals, reflecting strong evidence that animals experience sensations such as pleasure, comfort, fear and pain.

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The Cabinet Secretary added: "Our position on sentience has been very clear.

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Gove was presenting a draft law that would enshrine the concept of animal sentience into British law and introduce new jail sentences for animal abusers.

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Attribution of sentience to animals may also affect human-animal relationships and attitudes toward animals.

Attitudes of South Brazilian sheep farmers to animal welfare and sentience/Atitudes de ovinocultores do sul do Brasil em relacao a bem-estar e senciencia animal

Michelle Thew, chief of Cruelty Free International, said: "It is not good enough for the Government to say animal sentience is covered by the UK Animal Welfare Act - the fact is, it isn't.

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DeGrazia states that the potential for sentience is enough for someone to have moral status, and argues that this begins in the third trimester.