Meaning of SENTIENCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'senshuns
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | awareness, sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency |
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| | Antonyms: | | insentience | | |
| | See Also: | | aliveness, animateness, consciousness, faculty, liveness, mental faculty, modality, module, sense modality, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensory system | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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