sentience
noun
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
sentiency
-
a variation of
sentience.
Example Sentences
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There was rather a memorable moment of sentiency just there.
From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort
All matter, according to Buddhism, represents aggregated sentiency, making, by its inherent tendencies, toward conditions of pain or pleasure, evil or good.
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn
I say wish, for if all material consciousness and sentiency be founded on atomic consciousness, then in its turn atomic consciousness is founded upon, and dependent on, etheric consciousness.
From The Crack of Doom by Robert Cromie
Cognitive sentiency is dichotomised as proceeding discriminately and as proceeding indiscriminately.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
The falling apart of rotten wood breeds sentiency, there's force and motion in the falling of a dying leaf, in the breaking up and crumbling of everything indeed.
From The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Algernon Blackwood
