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Sentiency

Sentience \Sen"ti*ence\, Sentiency \Sen"ti*en*cy\, n. [See Sentient, Sentence.] The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
--G. H. Lewes.

An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.
--Earle.

Wiktionary
sentiency

n. The property of having sensation; sentience.

WordNet
sentiency

n. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" [syn: sense, sensation, sentience, sensory faculty]

Usage examples of "sentiency".

He would have had to describe the difference between American and Quadling political systems, and that would have plunged him into the lack of sentiency in Terrestrial animals, and that would have swept him into only-God-knew-what.

One of them had been whether or not sentiency extended to the insects.

He asked Sharts about the rolling lightning balls, the sentiency of animals, and the animation of the Scarecrow.

Her sentiency would enable her to hunt in a manner her other-world cousins would never dream of.

It is possible that Hank’s explanation for the animation of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow and for the sentiency of animals was wrong.

There was no sign of life, but one knew, almost instinctively, that sentiency lurked in the buried pathways and tunnels of the great treeland.