Synonyms for sentience
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sen-shuh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn ʃəns |
Top 10 synonyms for sentience
- acquaintance
- acquaintanceship
- aliveness
- apprehension
- attentiveness
- being
- bodhi
- breath
- brio
- cognizance
- comprehension
- dash
- discernment
- élan
- élan vital
- energy
- enlightenment
- enthusiasm
- entity
- esprit
- essence
- excitement
- familiarity
- get-up-and-go
- go
- high spirits
- impulse
- keenness
- lifeblood
- liveliness
- mindfulness
- oomph
- realization
- recognition
- sensibility
- sentience
- soul
- sparkle
- understanding
- verve
- viability
- vigor
- vitality
- vivacity
- zest
- zing
Définition of sentience
Origin :- 1817, "faculty of sense; feeling, consciousness;" see sentient + -ence. Related: Sentiency (1796).
- As in life : noun animation, spirit
- As in awareness : noun knowledge
- The same is true of the sentient object so long, and only so long, as I do not take its sentience into account.
- Extract from : « A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution » by C. M. Williams
- But to take the sentience into account is to sympathize, or at least the sympathy is implied in the normal or only possible case.
- Extract from : « A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution » by C. M. Williams
- The Horus Stone, as though endowed with sentience, fell and rested where it had rested five thousand years before.
- Extract from : « The Mummy and Miss Nitocris » by George Griffith
- She knew well the meaning of the bonnet which actually seemed to quiver as though it had a sentience of its own.
- Extract from : « The Man » by Bram Stoker
- At that, the other sentience which shared the body with Mayhem snickered and lapsed into silence.
- Extract from : « A Place in the Sun » by C.H. Thames
- Could it be that the powers of Nature which had been revealed to me in the dread hour had not only sentience but purpose!
- Extract from : « The Mystery of the Sea » by Bram Stoker
- And the old car—that to us had always seemed to have a personality and sentience—had it been dreaming, too?
- Extract from : « The Car That Went Abroad » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- But the data of the immediate are hardly human; it is probable that at that level all sentience is much alike.
- Extract from : « Winds Of Doctrine » by George Santayana
Antonyms for sentience
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