sentience

1. State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness (synset 105685793)
   "the crash intruded on his awareness"
   is a type of: consciousness - an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
   same as: awareness
2. The faculty through which the external world is apprehended (synset 105659816)
   "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
   is a type of: faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
   subtypes:

   • modality, sense modality, sensory system - a particular sense
   • sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
   same as: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency
3. The readiness to perceive sensations;
   Elementary or undifferentiated consciousness (synset 105013204)
   "gave sentience to slugs and newts"
   tells us about:

   • animate, sentient - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
   • insensate, insentient - devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
   is a type of: aliveness, animateness, liveness - the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

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