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–noun

sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.

Also, sen·tien·cy.

[Origin: 1830–40; senti(ent) + -ence

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sen·tience Audio Help (sěn'shəns, -shē-əns) Pronunciation Key
n.

The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.
Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.

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sentience
noun
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]

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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.

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