sentiencen.
/ˈsɛnʃns/, /ˈsɛnʃɪəns/, /ˈsɛntɪəns/, U.S. /ˈsɛn(t)ʃ(i)əns/ The condition or quality of being sentient, consciousness, susceptibility to sensation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun]
passibilitya1398
passibleness?a1425
sensibleness?a1425
sensibility?c1425
sense1538
perceptibility1642
sensitiveness1651
passivity1664
aesthesia1829
sentience1839
sentiencya1850
sensitivity1856
sensation1869
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > consciousness
wita1000
mindc1300
perceptiona1398
percipiency1662
feeling1734
consciousness1753
percipience1768
self-feeling1798
sentience1839
sentiencya1850
cœnaesthesisa1856
cœnaesthesia1885
1839 E. A. Poe Fall House of Usher in Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 149 This opinion [of Usher's], in its general form, was that of the sentience of all vegetable things.
1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 77 The Sánkhyas use them to prove, that the whole world, every constituent part of which is for an end, has for its author that which possesses no sentience,—nature.
a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) 244 If physical esse is intelligi, and intelligence has been evolved from sentience, clearly physical objective existence has been produced by the ordinary impulse or inherent necessity of evolution.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1839