Sentience

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  • noun. The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.
  • noun. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Sentient character or state; the faculty of sense; feeling; consciousness.
  • noun. Specifically, in psychology, presentation regarded as immediate experience, without reference to its significance for thought.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
  • noun. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
  • noun. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • Word Usage
    "The problem most often referred to is the hard problem of consciousness; i.e. how to explain sentience and qualia and their interaction with consciousness."
    Equivalent
    sentiency  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    aliveness  animateness  consciousness  liveness  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    apperception  bedevilment  carina  self-observation  string-pulling  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    affectibility  alertness  all-night vigil  consciousness  consciousness  
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