sentience
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(noun) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness: "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart |
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Related Words: aliveness, animateness, liveness |
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Antonyms: insentience |
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(noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" |
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Synonyms: awareness |
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Related Words: consciousness |
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(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended |
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Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency |
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Related Words: faculty, mental faculty, modality, module, sense modality, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensory system |
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