sentience
nounThe quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.
nounFeeling as distinguished from perception or thought.
nounSentient character or state; the faculty of sense; feeling; consciousness.
nounSpecifically, in psychology, presentation regarded as immediate experience, without reference to its significance for thought.
nounThe quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
nounThe state or quality of being
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
nounthe faculty through which the external world is apprehended
nounstate of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness