sentience

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Sentiency

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sense awareness sensation sentiency sensory faculty being life area air living ace attention existence appearance creation
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Antonyms

insentience death collapse faint coma fatality
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Hypernyms

consciousness faculty module aliveness animateness liveness

Hyponyms

sensitivity sensibility modality sensitiveness sensory system sense modality

Related terms

sentient sentiency sensemaking pseudosentience pansentience pseudosentient

Phrases with the word

full sentience

Examples

the crash intruded on his awareness Source: Internet

in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing Source: Internet

gave sentience to slugs and newts Source: Internet

Also, by custom, as described in Excession, any artifact (be it a tool or vessel) above a certain capability level has to be given sentience. Source: Internet

During the trial the cosmic entity Eternity —the sentience of the Marvel Universe—intervenes, allowing all present to momentarily become one with the universe. Source: Internet

Furthermore, a small group of robots claims that the Zeroth Law of Robotics itself implies a higher Minus One Law of Robotics: A robot may not harm sentience or, through inaction, allow sentience to come to harm. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

senti senticous sentics sentiency sentiendum sentient