SENTIENCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sentiency" is a kind of...):

faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentiency"):

sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)

Derivation:

sentient (consciously perceiving)