sentiency
- a variation of sentience.
Example Sentences
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It was tenanted by a being all sentiency, which saw him through her visor as a passer-by in a gallery.
From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick
I have been inclined to put forward first of all the translation into idealistic terms of the universal sentiency held by the Ionian thinkers to be inherent in the primordial elements of nature.
From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas
Begin, he says like Condillac, with the barest nucleus of soul-life; the mere sentiency, or feeling: the contact, as it were, with being, at a single point.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
To Buddhist conception all matter is sentient,—the sentiency varying according to condition: "even rocks and stones," a Japanese Buddhist text declares, "can worship Buddha."
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio
But it is awaking to self-activity: it is emerging to Consciousness,—to distinguish itself, as aware and conscious, from the facts of life and sentiency of which it is aware.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
