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Sentience

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Consciousness 76% connected

The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.

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Faculty 76% connected

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any…

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Module 76% connected

A model or measure.

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Modality 76% connected

The quality or state of being modal.

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Sensibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

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Sensitivity 76% connected

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

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Animate 74% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Animate 74% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Sentient 74% connected

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…

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Sentient 74% connected

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Animate 66% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Animate 66% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Insensate 66% connected

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.

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Insensate 66% connected

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.

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Sentient 66% connected

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…

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Sentient 66% connected

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…

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Synonym 3

Sensation 92% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sense 92% connected

A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the bod…

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Sentiency 92% connected

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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