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Sentience

Sentience Meaning & Definition
Sentience Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sentience?

[n] the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
[n] 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"
[n] state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sentience: awareness | sensation | sense | sensory faculty | sentiency

Related Terms | Find terms related to Sentience:

See Also | aliveness | animateness | consciousness | faculty | liveness | mental faculty | modality | module | sense modality | sensibility | sensitiveness | sensitivity | sensory system

Sentience In Webster's Dictionary

\Sen"ti*ence\, Sentiency \Sen"ti*en*cy\, n. [See {Sentient}, {Sentence}.] The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation. --G. H. Lewes An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentieny of the mind. --Earle.

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