sentience
(noun)
noun
1. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Similar word(s): awareness
Definition categories: thought, consciousness
2. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Similar word(s): sensation, sense, sentiency
Definition categories: thought, faculty, module
3. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
- gave sentience to slugs and newts
Definition categories: attribute, aliveness, animateness, liveness