SENTIENCE

• (noun) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

  "gave sentience to slugs and newts"

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : sensation , sense , sensory faculty , sentiency

• (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

  "the crash intruded on his awareness"

  synonyms : awareness

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