sentience

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noun

1. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
- the crash intruded on his awareness
• Syn:
awareness
• Derivationally related forms:
sentient, aware (for: awareness)
• Hypernyms:
consciousness
2. 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
• Syn:
sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty
• Derivationally related forms:
sentient (for: sentiency), sentient, sense (for: sensation), sensorial (for: sense), sensuous (for: sense), sense (for: sense), sensify (for: sense)
• Hypernyms:
faculty, mental faculty, module
• Hyponyms:
modality, sense modality, sensory system, sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility
3. the readiness to perceive sensations;
elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
- "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
• Ant:
insentience
• Derivationally related forms:
sentient
• Hypernyms:
animateness, aliveness, liveness
• Attrubites:
sentient, animate, insentient, insensate

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty, awareness