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sentience has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is insentience.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
“the crash intruded on his awareness”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for sentience come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
“gave sentience to slugs and newts”