sentience

The same is true of the sentient object so long, and only so long, as I do not take its sentience into account.

She knew well the meaning of the bonnet which actually seemed to quiver as though it had a sentience of its own.

Could it be that the powers of Nature which had been revealed to me in the dread hour had not only sentience but purpose!

But to take the sentience into account is to sympathize, or at least the sympathy is implied in the normal or only possible case.