Sentience vs Essence - What's the difference?
sentience | essence |
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, "
(senseid)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
* Landor
* Addison
* Courthorpe
(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
Constituent substance.
* Milton
A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
* Milton
* Washington Irving
A significant feature of something.
The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
* essence of Jojoba
Fragrance, a perfume.
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between sentience and essence
is that sentience is the state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness while essence is (senseid)the inherent nature of a thing or idea.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.
essence
English
Noun
(en noun)- The laws are at present, both in form and essence , the greatest curse that society labours under.
- Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].
- The essence of Addison's humour is irony.
- Uncompounded is their essence pure.
- As far as gods and heavenly essences / Can perish.
- He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences , until he had an ideal world of his own around him.
- Nor let the essences exhale.