sentience (senshiens)

[ This opinion, in its general form, was that of the sentience of all vegetable things. Poe , Tales, I. 301. Since, therefore, life can find its nece ary mobility in matter, can it not also acquire its nece ary sentience from the same source? Nineteenth Century , XX. 346. If the term sentience be employed as preferable to consciousne , it must be understood as equivalent to consciousne in the broader sense of the latter word. G. T. Ladd , Physiol. Psychology, Int., p. 3. sentiency (sen's hi-en-si), n. [As sentience (see -cy).] Same as sentience . There are substances which, when added to the blood, render sentiency le vivid. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 42.