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sentience

noun
/ˈsɛn.ʃəns/

Etymology

From sentient, from Latin sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“feel, sense”). Compare with sentence, its equivalent formation from Classic Latin sententia (for *sentientia).

  1. derived from sententia
  2. derived from sentiēns

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being sentient

    The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.

    • The science of animal sentience is far from a firm one; there's no way of knowing exactly what any animal is feeling.

  2. Misspelling of sentence

The neighborhood

Derived

hypersentience, insentience, nonsentience, omnisentience, presentience

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sentience. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA