sentience meaning and definition

SENTIENCE noun

Definition of sentience (noun)

1. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
   • "the crash intruded on his awareness"
   • synonyms: awareness
2. 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
3. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
   • "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
   • antonym: insentience