sentience Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    awareness.
    • the crash intruded on his awareness
  2. noun the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
    sentiency; sensory faculty; sensation; sense.
    • in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
  3. noun the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart

WordNet

Sen"ti*ence, Sen"ti*en*cy noun (Also<
  • Sentience
  • Sentiency
)
Etymology
See Sentient, Sentence.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation. G. H. Lewes
    An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentieny of the mind. Earle.

Webster 1913