Sentience – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
sentience
n.
ability to perceive sensation, ability to feel
Sentience
Sentience is the capacity to
feel,
perceive, or
experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (
reason) from the ability to feel (
sentience). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience
sensations (known in
philosophy of mind as "
qualia"). In Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care. The concept is central to the philosophy of
animal rights, because sentience is necessary for the ability to
suffer, and thus is held to
confer certain rights.
sentience
Noun
1. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"
(synonym) awareness
(hypernym) consciousness
2. 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"
(synonym) sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty
(hypernym) faculty, mental faculty, module
(hyponym) modality, sense modality, sensory system
3. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
(antonym) insentience
(hypernym) animateness, aliveness, liveness
(attribute) sentient, animate
Sentience
(n.)
Alt. of Sentiency
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
sentience
Synonyms and related words:
affectibility, alertness, all-night vigil, consciousness, impressibility, impressionability, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, lidless vigil, limen, openness to sensation, perceptibility, physical sensibility, readiness of feeling, receptiveness, receptivity, restlessness, sensation level, sensibility, sensibleness, sentiency, sleeplessness, susceptibility, susceptivity, threshold of sensation, tossing and turning, vigil, wake, wakefulness
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