sentience

Other forms of sentience

plural

sentiences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sentience

What does sentience mean?

sentience means "state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sentience?

sentience has 2 syllables: sen-tience. The stress falls on "sen".

What is another word for sentience?

Close synonyms include awareness, sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of sentience?

The recorded antonyms are insentience.

Is sentience a common word?

sentience is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.