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SENTIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Example:
gave sentience to slugs and newts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sentience" is a kind of...):
aliveness; animateness; liveness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Attribute:
animate; sentient (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness)
insensate; insentient (devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation)
Antonym:
insentience (lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations)
Derivation:
sentient (consciously perceiving)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Example:
in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
Synonyms:
sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sentience" is a kind of...):
faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentience"):
modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)
sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)
Derivation:
sentient (consciously perceiving)
Sense 3
Meaning:
State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Example:
the crash intruded on his awareness
Synonyms:
awareness; sentience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sentience" is a kind of...):
consciousness (an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation)
Derivation:
sentient (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness)
