sentience
/ˈsɛn.ʃəns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For a while I sat quiet, my heart beating. The place was grimly dark. The only light was a faint one from the top of the lamp which threw a white circle on the high ceiling, except the emerald sheen of the shade as the light took its under edges. Even the light only seemed to emphasize the blackness of the shadows. These presently began to seem, as on last night, to have a sentience of their own."
- "The science of animal sentience is far from a firm one; there's no way of knowing exactly what any animal is feeling."