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[ sen-shuhns ] / ˈsɛn ʃəns / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sentience ON THESAURUS.COM
nounsentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling. Origin of sentienceFirst recorded in 1830–40; senti(ent) + -ence OTHER WORDS FROM sentiencenon·sen·tience, nounnon·sen·tien·cy, nounWords nearby sentiencesentential calculus, sentential connective, sentential function, sententious, senti, sentience, sentient, sentiment, sentimental, sentimentalism, sentimentalist Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sentienceSome would also lasso consciousness or sentience into the requirements for an AGI. Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?|Will Heaven|October 15, 2020|MIT Technology Review Then that brought up the question of sentience: Is this Will Caster? How ‘Transcendence’ Director Wally Pfister Became Christopher Nolan’s Secret Weapon|Andrew Romano|April 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST Our sentience just cycling through our lives like carts on a track. ‘True Detective’ Episode 5 Review: ‘The Secret Fate of All Life’ is the Best Episode Yet|Andrew Romano|February 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine- sentience societies. Nerdiness from Noah: Iain M. Banks and 'The Culture'|Noah Kristula-Green|April 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Horus Stone, as though endowed with sentience, fell and rested where it had rested five thousand years before. The Mummy and Miss Nitocris|George Griffith The same is true of the sentient object so long, and only so long, as I do not take its sentience into account. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution|C. M. Williams She knew well the meaning of the bonnet which actually seemed to quiver as though it had a sentience of its own. Could it be that the powers of Nature which had been revealed to me in the dread hour had not only sentience but purpose! The Mystery of the Sea|Bram Stoker But to take the sentience into account is to sympathize, or at least the sympathy is implied in the normal or only possible case. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution|C. M. Williams
British Dictionary definitions for sentience
nounthe state or quality of being sentient; awareness sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sentienceheart, growth, soul, activity, information, perception, consciousness, attention, experience, understanding, appreciation, alertness, realization, recognition, get-up-and-go, being, essence, energy, entity, dash |