sentience

Definitions of sentience

Type of:: consciousness
an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation

“"gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart”

Antonyms:: insentience
lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations

Type of:: aliveness, animateness, liveness
the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

Types:: show 13 types...; hide 13 types...; modality, sense modality, sensory system
a particular sense; sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; acuteness
a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed; hypersensitivity
extreme sensitivity; reactivity, responsiveness
responsive to stimulation; exteroception
sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body; interoception
sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body; photosensitivity, radiosensitivity
sensitivity to the action of radiant energy; sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense
the ability to see; the visual faculty; somatosense
any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain; audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

Type of:: faculty, mental faculty, module
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

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