sentience vs animateness

sentience and animateness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, animateness is a hypernym of sentience; that is, animateness is a word with a broader meaning than sentience:

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

Other hypernyms of sentience include aliveness, liveness.

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