sentience

• Nom désignant la capacité d'avoir des expériences subjectives, des sentiments et une conscience ; la capacité de percevoir des sensations et le monde extérieur, souvent considérée comme une forme fondamentale de la conscience.

A noun referring to the capacity to have subjective experiences, feelings, and awareness; the ability to perceive sensations and the external world, often considered a fundamental form of consciousness.

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1. Basic consciousnessC2formal

   The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively; a state of elementary or undifferentiated awareness.

   Conscience élémentaire / sentience

   • The debate about animal sentience questions whether they can experience pain.
   • Philosophers have long argued about the nature of sentience in machines.
   • The study explores the emergence of sentience in early life forms.

   Synonymesawarenessconsciousnesssentiency

2. Perception of the external worldC2formal

   The faculty through which the external world is apprehended or sensed.

   Sentience (perception du monde extérieur)

   • Sentience allows an organism to respond to its environment.
   • The artist's work captures the raw sentience of human experience.
   • Through sentience, we interpret the world around us.

   Synonymesawarenessconsciousnessperceptionsensibilitysensitivity

3. Readiness to perceive sensationsC2formal

   The readiness or ability to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness.

   Sentience

   • The poet wrote about the sentience of the natural world.
   • Her sentience to the subtle changes in the room was remarkable.
   • The concept of sentience is central to understanding awareness.

   Synonymesawarenessconsciousnessperceptivitysensibilitysentiency

   Antonymesapathyinsentiencenumbnessunconsciousness