different between pansentience vs sentience

English

Etymology

pan- +? sentience

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pæn?s?n??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæn?s?n??ns/, [pæn?s?n(t)?i.?ns]

Noun

pansentience (uncountable)

1. The concept of all things having sentience.
   • 2008, Arturo Escobar, Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes, page 298

     If language and meaning, as some of these biologists suggest, are properties of all living beings and not only of humans—that is, if the world is one of pansentience—can activists and others learn to become “readers of the book of life” and avail themselves of this reading to illuminate their reveries and strategies?

   • 2010, M. R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate, The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, page 101:

     Some (e.g. Goodwin, 2007) go further to suggest that language and meaning are properties of all living beings and not only of human beings – in other words, that the world is one of pansentience.

   • 2011, Madhusudan Sakya, Current Perspectives in Buddhism, page 158:

     To sum up, the universe is the thoughtform of the collective mindstream of all sentient beings (and there is nothing which is non-sentient; pansentience).

Synonyms

• omnisentience

Related terms

• sentiency
• sentient
• sentience

English

Etymology

From sentient, from Latin senti?ns, present participle of senti? (“feel, sense”). Confer with sentence, its equivalent formation from Classic Latin sententia (for *sentientia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n??ns/, /?s?n?i.?ns/, /?s?nti.?ns/

Noun

sentience (usually uncountable, plural sentiences)

1. The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
   • 1903, Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars, ch. 5:

     [T]he shadows . . . presently began to seem, as on last night, to have a sentience of their own.

   • 2007 Dec. 28, Alexandra Silver, "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.

Related terms

• sentiency
• sentient
• pansentience

Translations

Anagrams

• enceintes