Synonyms for sentience
ˈsɛn ʃənssen·tience

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1. awareness, sentiencenoun

   state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

   "the crash intruded on his awareness"

   Synonyms:
   knowingness, cognisance, sensation, sentiency, cognizance, sense, consciousness, awareness, sensory faculty

   Antonyms:
   insentience

2. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory facultynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   adept, hotshot, virtuoso, good sense, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, sentiency, mother wit, esthesis, awareness, horse sense, ace, genius, mavin, sensation, common sense, sense datum, maven, wiz, signified, sense impression, wizard, star, sense experience, sensory faculty, gumption, sense, whizz

   Antonyms:
   insentience

3. sentiencenoun

   the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

   "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart

   Synonyms:
   sentiency, sense, awareness, sensory faculty, sensation

   Antonyms:
   insentience

Matched Categories

1. • Animateness
   • Consciousness

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How to use sentience in a sentence?

1. Alex Garland:

   That is effectively dramatized and represented within the film because Ava’s sentience comes partly out of the inputs that we’ve put into search engines, there was a loose idea, and this probably does n’t stand up to any scrutiny at all, but for what it’s worth, that if you were to look at everybody’s search engine inputs you ’d get a kind of map and the map would not just tell you what they were thinking about but also how they were thinking because of the strange jumps that people make in their input.

2. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   As philosophers tread the path where circuits intertwine with consciousness, the specter of machine sentience challenges not only our ethical compass but forces us to reconsider the sanctity of consciousness, questioning whether it is an exclusive birthright of biology or a frontier open to the artifice of silicon minds.