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sentience n. [
awareness] state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"
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sentience n. [
sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty] 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"
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sentience n. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
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