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sentience vs sensitiveness

sensitiveness vs sentience

sentience and sensitiveness both are nouns.

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

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