| NOUN | cognition | sentience, awareness | state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness |
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| cognition | sentience, sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | |
| attribute | sentience | the readiness to perceive sensations |
| Meaning | state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness. | |
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| Synonym | awareness | |
| Broader | consciousness | An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation |
| Spanish | concienciación, conciencia | |
| Catalan | consciència | |
| Adjectives | sentient | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness |
| Meaning | The faculty through which the external world is apprehended. | |
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| Synonyms | sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty | |
| Narrower | modality, sense modality, sensory system | A particular sense |
| sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli | |
| Broader | faculty, mental faculty, module | One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
| Spanish | facultades sensoriales, sentido, sentidos | |
| Catalan | facultats sensorials, sentit, sentits | |
| Adjectives | sentient | consciously perceiving |
| Meaning | The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness. | |
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| Example | "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart | |
| Attributes | insentient, insensate | Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation |
| sentient, animate | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | |
| Broader | animateness, aliveness, liveness | The property of being animated |
| Opposite | insentience | lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations |
| Spanish | sensibilidad | |
| Catalan | sensibilitat, sensitivitat | |
| Adjectives | sentient | consciously perceiving |
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