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sensibility vs sentience

sentience vs sensibility

sensibility and sentience both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sensibility Yes No No No
sentience Yes No No No
As nouns, sentience is a hypernym of sensibility; that is, sentience is a word with a broader meaning than sensibility:
  • sensibility: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • sentience: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Other hypernyms of sensibility include sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency.
sensibility (noun) sentience (noun)
mental responsiveness and awareness the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
Difference between sensibility and sentience

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