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English noun: sentience | |||
| 1. | sentience (cognition) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | ||
| Samples | The crash intruded on his awareness. | ||
| Synonyms | awareness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | consciousness | ||
| 2. | sentience (cognition) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | ||
| Samples | In the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing. | ||
| Synonyms | sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | faculty, mental faculty, module | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | modality, sense modality, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensory system | ||
| 3. | sentience (attribute) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | ||
| Samples | Gave sentience to slugs and newts. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aliveness, animateness, liveness | ||
| Attribute | animate, insensate, insentient, sentient | ||
| Antonyms | insentience | ||
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