state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; the crash intruded on his awareness

[ Syn: awareness ]

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

[ Syn: sense , sensation , sentiency , sensory faculty ]

the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; gave sentience to slugs and newts- Richard Eberhart