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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sentience has 3 senses

• sentience(n = noun.cognition) awareness - state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"
is a kind of consciousness
Derived form adjective sentient₁

• sentience(n = noun.cognition) sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency - 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"
is a kind of faculty, mental faculty, module
has particulars: modality, sense modality, sensory system, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity
Derived form adjective sentient₂

• sentience(n = noun.attribute) Array - the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"
is a kind of aliveness, animateness, liveness
Antonym: insentience
Derived form adjective sentient₂

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THESAURUS

sentience

affectibility, alertness, all-night vigil, consciousness, impressibility, impressionability, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, lidless vigil, limen, openness to sensation, perceptibility, physical sensibility, readiness of feeling, receptiveness, receptivity, restlessness, sensation level, sensibility, sensibleness, sentiency, sleeplessness, susceptibility, susceptivity, threshold of sensation, tossing and turning, vigil, wake, wakefulness

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