sentience
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
the crash intruded on his awareness
Types & categories
- consciousness hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- module hypernym
- sensory system hyponym
- sensitivity hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
gave sentience to slugs and newts
Types & categories
- animateness hypernym
Related & opposite
- insentience antonym
- sentient attribute
- insentient attribute
- sentient derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sentient |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mindful |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | consciousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sensitize |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sense |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sense |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sensuous |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sentient |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sensorial |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | module |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sensory system |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sensitivity |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | insentience |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | sentient |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | insentient |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sentient |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | animateness |