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sentience
[ sen-shuhns ]
sentience
/ ˈsɛnʃəns /
noun
- the state or quality of being sentient; awareness
- sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling
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Other Words From
- non·sentience noun
- non·sentien·cy noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sentience1
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Example Sentences
Professor Smith also makes the case for future droids becoming quasi-sentient—with pre-programmed sentience, that is.
Then that brought up the question of sentience: Is this Will Caster?
Our sentience just cycling through our lives like carts on a track.
They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine- sentience societies.
All this suggests that if they can achieve sentience, Republicans could still compete in a changing America continues changing.
And the old car—that to us had always seemed to have a personality and sentience—had it been dreaming, too?
But the data of the immediate are hardly human; it is probable that at that level all sentience is much alike.
When the superstructures crumble, the common foundation of human sentience and imagination is exposed beneath.
He couldn't remain in one body more than a month: it would mean the final death of his elan, his bodiless sentience.
At that, the other sentience which shared the body with Mayhem snickered and lapsed into silence.
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