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sensitiveness vs sentience

sentience vs sensitiveness

sensitiveness and sentience both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sensitiveness Yes No No No
sentience Yes No No No
As nouns, sentience is a hypernym of sensitiveness; that is, sentience is a word with a broader meaning than sensitiveness:
  • sensitiveness: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • sentience: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Other hypernyms of sensitiveness include sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency.
sensitiveness (noun) sentience (noun)
the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
Difference between sensitiveness and sentience

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