Noun: sentience sen-sh(ee-)un(t)s [N. Amer], sen-tee-un(t)s [Brit]
- The capacity for sensation or feeling; consciousness
"The debate centred on whether artificial intelligence could achieve true sentience";
- sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty
- The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"gave sentience to slugs and newts"
- State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"the crash intruded on his sentience";
- awareness
Derived forms: sentiences
See also: animate, insensate, insentient, sentient
Type of: aliveness, animateness, consciousness, faculty, liveness, mental faculty, module
Antonym: insentience
Encyclopedia: Sentience