sentience

Nouns

  • (n) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • the crash intruded on his awareness
    awareness,
  • (n) 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
    sensory faculty, sentiency, sense, sensation,
  • (n) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart

Synonyms

awareness sensory faculty sentiency sense sensation

Antonyms

insentience

Words of close approximity

sentiency
sentient
sentiency