Dictionary Check: sentience
"sentience" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
noun
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Example:
"the crash intruded on his awareness"
noun
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Example:
"in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
noun
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Example:
"gave sentience to slugs and newts"
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