Sentience Synonyms and Antonyms

sĕnshəns, -shē-əns, -tē-əns
The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; - Richard Eberhart
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. awareness
Antonyms:
  1. insentience
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sense
  2. sensation
  3. sentiency
  4. sensory faculty

Sentience Sentence Examples

  • Tallis argued that many beasts have sentience but no knowledge and thus could not be described as having consciousness.

  • In the second, players design a creature which must establish itself in the game world, and evolve until it achieves sentience.

  • Rev A L Birkbeck - Asked whether any progress had been made over animal sentience versus profit.

  • The burden of proof for animal sentience needs to be on both sides.

  • Pinker acknowledges that, as yet, we have no idea how to explain sentience scientifically.

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