- awareness, sentience - state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"
--1 is a kind of consciousness
- sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
--2 is a kind of faculty, mental faculty, module
--2 has particulars:modality, sense modality, sensory system; sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility - sentience - the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
--3 is a kind of animateness, aliveness, liveness
Antonyms: insentience