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Meaning of sentience

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sentience
      n 1: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the
           crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: {awareness},
           {sentience}]
      2: 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" [syn: {sense}, {sensation}, {sentience},
         {sentiency}, {sensory faculty}]
      3: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or
         undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and
         newts"- Richard Eberhart [ant: {insentience}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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