Antonyms for sentience

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sen-shuh ns

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn ʃəns

Definition of sentience

Origin : 1817, "faculty of sense; feeling, consciousness;" see sentient + -ence. Related: Sentiency (1796).

As in life : noun animation, spirit
As in awareness : noun knowledge

Example sentences :

The same is true of the sentient object so long, and only so long, as I do not take its sentience into account.
Extract from : « A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution » by C. M. Williams

But to take the sentience into account is to sympathize, or at least the sympathy is implied in the normal or only possible case.
Extract from : « A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution » by C. M. Williams

The Horus Stone, as though endowed with sentience, fell and rested where it had rested five thousand years before.
Extract from : « The Mummy and Miss Nitocris » by George Griffith

She knew well the meaning of the bonnet which actually seemed to quiver as though it had a sentience of its own.
Extract from : « The Man » by Bram Stoker

At that, the other sentience which shared the body with Mayhem snickered and lapsed into silence.
Extract from : « A Place in the Sun » by C.H. Thames

Could it be that the powers of Nature which had been revealed to me in the dread hour had not only sentience but purpose!
Extract from : « The Mystery of the Sea » by Bram Stoker

And the old car—that to us had always seemed to have a personality and sentience—had it been dreaming, too?
Extract from : « The Car That Went Abroad » by Albert Bigelow Paine

But the data of the immediate are hardly human; it is probable that at that level all sentience is much alike.
Extract from : « Winds Of Doctrine » by George Santayana

Synonyms for sentience

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