sentience

• 名词，指具有主观体验、感受和意识的能力；即能够感知感觉和外部世界的能力，通常被视为意识的基本形式。

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.

   感受能力

   • 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.

   同义词awarenessconsciousnesssentiency

2. Perception of the external worldC2formal

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

   对外部世界的感知

   • 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.

   同义词awarenessconsciousnessperceptionsensibilitysensitivity

3. Readiness to perceive sensationsC2formal

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

   感受能力

   • 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.

   同义词awarenessconsciousnessperceptivitysensibilitysentiency

   反义词apathyinsentiencenumbnessunconsciousness