Synonyms of sentience

1. awareness, sentience, consciousness: usage: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"
2. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty, faculty, mental faculty, module: usage: 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"
3. sentience, animateness, aliveness, liveness: usage: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart