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Sentience - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Sentience : (noun)
1: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the
crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: 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" [syn: sense, sensation, sentiency,
sensory faculty]
3: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or
undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs
and newts"- Richard Eberhart [ant: insentience]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Sentience : \Sen"ti*ence\, Sentiency \Sen"ti*en*cy\, n. [See
Sentient, Sentence.]
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.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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