Added 8 October 2026
sentience
/ˈsɛn.ʃəns/ noun
Latin root: sentiēns Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about sentience at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
- Misspelling of sentence
Origin
From sentient, from Latin sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“feel, sense”). Compare with sentence, its equivalent formation from Classic Latin sententia (for *sentientia).
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