sentience vs sensory faculty

sentience and sensory faculty both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sentience	Yes	No	No	No
sensory faculty	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sentience and sensory faculty are synonyms defined as:

sentience and sensory faculty: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

Other synonyms of sentience include sensation, sense, sentiency.

sentience (noun)	sensory faculty (noun)
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness	the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness