sentience

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The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.

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Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.

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Sentient character or state; the faculty of sense; feeling; consciousness.

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Specifically, in psychology, presentation regarded as immediate experience, without reference to its significance for thought.

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The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.

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The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.

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the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

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the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

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state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness