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Sentiency
The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
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Broader term 2
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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A model or measure.
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Narrower term 3
The quality or state of being modal.
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The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
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The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
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Derivationally related 2
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…
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Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…
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15% interchangeable
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Synonym 3
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…
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68% interchangeable
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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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68% interchangeable
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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
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