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| sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling. |
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Sentience
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| sentience | |
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| 1. | state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: awareness] |
| 2. | 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] |
| 3. | the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart [ant: insentience] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
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 An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentieny of the mind. --Earle.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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