Associations to the word «Sentience»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

SENTIENCE, noun. State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness".
SENTIENCE, noun. The faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing".
SENTIENCE, noun. The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart.

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn