liveness vs sentience

liveness and sentience both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
liveness	Yes	No	No	No
sentience	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sentience is a hyponym of liveness; that is, sentience is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than liveness:

liveness: the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
sentience: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

Other hyponyms of liveness include animation, vitality.

liveness (noun)	sentience (noun)
the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life	the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
	the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
	state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness