What is the meaning of sentience?

noun

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