sentience

Definition of Sentience in English :

1. awareness, sentience

state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

Example Sentences:
'the crash intruded on his awareness'

the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

Example Sentences:
'in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing'

3. sentience

the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

Example Sentences:
'gave sentience to slugs and newts'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sentience

noun

1.

the state or quality of being sentient; awareness

2.

sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling

noun

1.

a sentient state or quality; capacity for feeling or perceiving; consciousness

2.

mere awareness or sensation that does not involve thought or perception

n.

1. The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.

2. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.