sentience
[sen-shuh ns]
- sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
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Sometimes sen·tien·cy.
Origin of sentience
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Contemporary Examples
Then that brought up the question of sentience: Is this Will Caster?
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Our sentience just cycling through our lives like carts on a track.
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They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine- sentience societies.
Historical Examples
The same is true of the sentient object so long, and only so long, as I do not take its sentience into account.
But to take the sentience into account is to sympathize, or at least the sympathy is implied in the normal or only possible case.
The Horus Stone, as though endowed with sentience, fell and rested where it had rested five thousand years before.
The Mummy and Miss NitocrisGeorge Griffith
She knew well the meaning of the bonnet which actually seemed to quiver as though it had a sentience of its own.
The ManBram Stoker
At that, the other sentience which shared the body with Mayhem snickered and lapsed into silence.
A Place in the SunC.H. Thames
sentience
sentiency
- the state or quality of being sentient; awareness
- sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling
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Word Origin and History for sentience
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