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S: NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10646883/ (last access: 6 April 2025); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/sentience (last access: 6 April 2025).
N: 1. From sentient, from Latin sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“feel, sense”). Compare with sentence, its equivalent formation from Classic Latin sententia (for *sentientia).
2. sentience, noun. The first known use of sentience was in 1839.
- sentient quality or state;
- feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and thought.
3. Psychology (General); Philosophy (General): sentience, sentiency.
- The capacity for feeling or perceiving …
- Sentience is a multidimensional subjective phenomenon that refers to the depth of awareness an individual possesses about himself or herself and others.
4. The emotional lives of animals is often doubted and questioned. Due to the subjective nature of animal emotions, many think that they are out of the reach of scientific measurement. In this systematic review, of over two decades of scientific literature, we found that this was not actually the case. By using a list of keywords, formed of both positive and negative emotions, and terminology relating to animal sentience, we reviewed the scientific literature. We found that the subjective lives of animals are not only a vital part of human medical research but are regularly measured and studied with scientific rigor.
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfare movement. In this review, we examined what is being explored and discussed, regarding animal sentience, within the scientific literature.
S: 1. Wiktionary – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sentience (last access: 6 April 2025). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentience (last access: 6 April 2025). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=sentience&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 6 April 2025). 4. NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4494450/ (last access: 6 April 2025).
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