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s | sentience |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun sentience is

the state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    sentience

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
  • * 1903 , , The Jewel of Seven Stars , ch. 5:
    • [T]he shadows . . . presently began to seem, as on last night, to have a sentience of their own.
  • * 2007 Dec. 28, Alexandra Silver, " Did This Tiger Hold a Grudge?," Time :
    • The science of animal sentience is far from a firm one; there's no way of knowing exactly what any animal is feeling.

    Related terms

    * sentiency * sentient * pansentience