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