Synonyms of sentience

Noun

1. awareness, sentience, consciousness

usage: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"

2. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty, faculty, mental faculty, module

usage: 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"

3. sentience, animateness, aliveness, liveness

usage: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart

Definition and meaning of sentience (Dictionary)