sentience   (TTS Sound)

The noun sentience has 3 senses

• awareness, sentience -- (state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness")


• sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty -- (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")


• sentience -- (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart)