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noun
The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Misspelling of sentence
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling, uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness- Richard Eberhart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: insentience
Broader terms: animateness, aliveness, liveness
noun
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: faculty, mental faculty, module
Narrower terms: modality, sense modality, sensory system, sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility
noun
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: awareness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consciousness
History
From sentient, from Latin sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“feel, sense”). Compare with sentence, its equivalent formation from Classic Latin sententia (for *sentientia).
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
