sentience meaning

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sentience (noun): state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness.

sentience has 3 meanings in this dictionary.

sentience as a noun

  1. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • the crash intruded on his awareness

    Synonyms: awareness

    Type of: consciousness

    Related forms: sentient

  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

    Synonyms: sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty

    Type of: faculty

    Kinds: modality, sensitivity

    Related forms: sentient

  3. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • gave sentience to slugs and newts

    Opposite: insentience

    Type of: animateness

    Related forms: sentient

Scrabble score: 11 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with SE · words ending in CE · 9-letter words

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