sentience

nouns

state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"the crash intruded on his awareness"
awareness, sentience
is derived from
sentient
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"
sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency
is derived from
sentient
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
sentience
is derived from
sentient
antonym
insentience
is a type of (narrower)
the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
aliveness, animateness, liveness
is an attribute of
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
animate, sentient
is an attribute of
devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
"insentient (or insensate) stone"
insensate, insentient