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Sentience

noun

State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness. Synonym: awareness.

The faculty through which the external world is apprehended. Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency.

The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness.

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"Sentience" Quotes from Famous Books

... settled paradises, they must be rarer still; but that one had wandered into the lovely shell of Concha Arguello he no longer doubted. The fact that it had developed haphazardly, with little or no help from her sentience, and was still fluid and uncertain, but multiplied her in interest and charm. The women to whom he was accustomed knew themselves, consequently were no riddle to a man of his experience, but here he had an odd sense of having entered into a compact in the dark with a girl who might one day symbolize ...

— Rezanov • Gertrude Atherton

... quality of the grass; never the same for successive instants. Constant movement and struggle as the expanding parts fought for room among themselves, pushing upward and outward, seemed to indicate perceptible sentience permeating the whole body. Preparing, brooding, it ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

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