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SENTIENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Example:
in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
Synonyms:
sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sentiency" is a kind of...):
faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentiency"):
modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)
sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)
Derivation:
sentient (consciously perceiving)
