英:['senʃənsɪ]
美:['senʃənsɪ]
英:['senʃənsɪ]
美:['senʃənsɪ]
Noun
1. 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"
1 Rutherford paced up and down the room in a stress of sentiency.
2 At such a moment, one feels indeed as if enveloped by some monstrous sentiency,—suspended within some vital substance that feels and sees and wills alike in every part, an infinite soft cold Ghost.
3 But in sentiency, feeling, or sensibility, the unity which all of these imply without reaching, is explicitly present.
4 It was tenanted by a being all sentiency, which saw him through her visor as a passer-by in a gallery.
5 But it is awaking to self-activity: it is emerging to Consciousness,—to distinguish itself, as aware and conscious, from the facts of life and sentiency of which it is aware.
6 When a breath of wind came, it was like a hot breath of some fierce sentiency.
7 The “anthropological process” has defined and settled the mere general sentiency of soul into an individualised shape, a localised and limited self, a bundle of habits.
8 All that is effected or educed, depending on something ulterior, it is threefold, sentiency, the insentient, and the sentient.
9 There is no testimony to argue that the attainment of cosmic consciousness, carries with it anything approaching annihilation of sentiency.
10 If it aroused in the chilled thing some slight pangs of sentiency, it would do her no hurt to realize through these that it had once been alive.
11 To many minds such a faith will seem incompatible with belief in the ultimate destruction of sentiency amid the general doom of the material universe.
12 In time that rope came to have sentiency in the eyes of Wade.
13 To Buddhist conception all matter is sentient,—the sentiency varying according to condition: "even rocks and stones," a Japanese Buddhist text declares, "can worship Buddha."
14 All matter, according to Buddhism, represents aggregated sentiency, making, by its inherent tendencies, toward conditions of pain or pleasure, evil or good.
15 In the function of sensibility and sentiency, however, we stand as it were on the border-line between biology and psychology.
16 Nor is the difficulty lessened by Hegel's method which deals with soul, sentiency, and consciousness as grades or general characteristics in a developmental advance.
17 There was rather a memorable moment of sentiency just there.
18 The falling apart of rotten wood breeds sentiency, there's force and motion in the falling of a dying leaf, in the breaking up and crumbling of everything indeed.
19 I have been inclined to put forward first of all the translation into idealistic terms of the universal sentiency held by the Ionian thinkers to be inherent in the primordial elements of nature.
20 I say wish, for if all material consciousness and sentiency be founded on atomic consciousness, then in its turn atomic consciousness is founded upon, and dependent on, etheric consciousness.