hypersentience

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hyper- +‎ sentience

Noun[edit]

hypersentience (uncountable)

  1. A state above or beyond sentience.
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast:
      [] his arms out on either side, the fingers splayed like starfish as though he were wakening them to a kind of hypersentience []