sentience

• Substantivo que designa a capacidade de ter experiências subjetivas, sentimentos e consciência; a capacidade de perceber sensações e o mundo exterior, frequentemente considerada uma forma fundamental de consciência.

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.

   Capacidade de sentir

   • 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.

   Sinônimosawarenessconsciousnesssentiency

2. Perception of the external worldC2formal

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

   Percepção do mundo externo

   • 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.

   Sinônimosawarenessconsciousnessperceptionsensibilitysensitivity

3. Readiness to perceive sensationsC2formal

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

   Capacidade de sentir

   • 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.

   Sinônimosawarenessconsciousnessperceptivitysensibilitysentiency

   Antônimosapathyinsentiencenumbnessunconsciousness