Synonyms: sentience
Definition: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Usage: gave sentience to slugs and newts- Richard Eberhart
Similar words: liveness, aliveness, animateness
Definition: the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency
Definition: 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
Similar words: faculty, mental faculty, module
Definition: one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Synonyms: sentience, awareness
Definition: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Usage: the crash intruded on his awareness
Similar words: consciousness
Definition: an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
Usage: he lost consciousness