sentience

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sen=tience

CIDE DICTIONARY

sentience, n. [See Sentient, Sentence.].

 The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.  G. H. Lewes.  [1913 Webster]
"An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sentience

affectibility, alertness, all-night vigil, consciousness, impressibility, impressionability, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, lidless vigil, limen, openness to sensation, perceptibility, physical sensibility, readiness of feeling, receptiveness, receptivity, restlessness, sensation level, sensibility, sensibleness, sentiency, sleeplessness, susceptibility, susceptivity, threshold of sensation, tossing and turning, vigil, wake, wakefulness