sentience
Nouns
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(n) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
- the crash intruded on his awareness
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(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
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(n) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
- "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart