Main entry: sentience
Definition: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Usage: gave sentience to slugs and newts- Richard Eberhart
Main entry: 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
Main entry: sentience, awareness
Definition: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Usage: the crash intruded on his awareness