'Sentience' definitions:
Definition of 'sentience'
From: WordNet
noun
State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: awareness, sentience]
noun
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" [syn: sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty]
noun
The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart [ant: insentience]
Definition of 'Sentience'
From: GCIDE
- Sentience \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. [1913 Webster]
- An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind. --Earle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sentience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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