Sensitive vs Sentience - What's the difference?
sensitive | sentience |
Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
*, III.1.2.i:
Responsive to stimuli.
Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
Of an issue, capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
Accurate (instrument).
One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
* 2003 , Frederic W.H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Part 2
The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
* 1903 , , The Jewel of Seven Stars , ch. 5:
* 2007 Dec. 28, Alexandra Silver, "
As nouns the difference between sensitive and sentience
is that sensitive is one with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive while sentience is the state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.As an adjective sensitive
is having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.sensitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.
- Max is very sensitive ; he cried today because of the bad news.
- Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
Derived terms
* sensitively * sensitiveness * sensitivitySynonyms
* tender * nesh * precise * compassionate * caring * awareAntonyms
* insensitive * stoic * uncaring * resistantNoun
(en noun)- Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.
sentience
English
Noun
(-)- [T]he shadows . . . presently began to seem, as on last night, to have a sentience of their own.
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.
