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Can't think of a good word or term to describe not feeling or thinking [on hold]
What is a good word to describe someone who is empathetic, quick, and witty in conversationA word to describe the feeling that you are forgetting something?People who treat living things with kindness and love: word/termA word to describe a dark, solemn, good person?Term to describe initial investment versus long term gainsA word for describing thinking of something as betterWord for thinking something is happening when it's notPerson who is decided on, acted on, judged, voted on, or is reviewedGeneral term for a datum and its metadata together?Single or small number of words opposite of “soft focus”, “rose-tinted glasses” etc to convey cynicism/critical thinking/realism but not “pessimistic”
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I'm looking for a word or a term that describes a human who actually can't think. More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc.
Thanks.
For instance:
An embryo hasn't developed _________. An embryo is ________.
single-word-requests
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put on hold as primarily opinion-based by lbf, Chappo, Caleb, JJJ, aparente001 4 hours ago
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I'm looking for a word or a term that describes a human who actually can't think. More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc.
Thanks.
For instance:
An embryo hasn't developed _________. An embryo is ________.
single-word-requests
edited May 17 at 23:22
Andrew Leach♦
80.6k8154259
asked May 17 at 13:19
Victor SuVictor Su
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put on hold as primarily opinion-based by lbf, Chappo, Caleb, JJJ, aparente001 4 hours ago
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Welcome to ELU, Victor. I am not sure whether you have looked at ELU's expectations for questions. Any question needs to show what steps have been taken to find out the answer to their own question and to set the question in some sort of context, so that any of us can see the point or purpose of knowing the answer. For example, I might suggest in reply that the word for someone who can neither think nor feel anything (assuming we are talking about a living person) would be 'unconscious'. That is the only state in which the state described could be true. But what, otherwise, do you mean?
– Tuffy
May 17 at 13:42
I edited the post to include an example sentence.
– S Conroy
May 17 at 13:46
3
What about An embryo hasn't developed consciousness / awareness. An embryo is senseless
– enxaneta
May 17 at 15:40
3
@enxaneta post your answer as an answer!
– scohe001
May 17 at 18:27
5
Not to get in to it, but I'd suggest not using senseless due to the potential ambiguity of the word in that specific context...
– BruceWayne
May 17 at 19:59
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I'm looking for a word or a term that describes a human who actually can't think. More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc.
Thanks.
For instance:
An embryo hasn't developed _________. An embryo is ________.
single-word-requests
edited May 17 at 23:22
Andrew Leach♦
80.6k8154259
asked May 17 at 13:19
Victor SuVictor Su
292
New contributor
Victor Su is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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I'm looking for a word or a term that describes a human who actually can't think. More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc.
Thanks.
For instance:
An embryo hasn't developed _________. An embryo is ________.
single-word-requests
single-word-requests
edited May 17 at 23:22
Andrew Leach♦
80.6k8154259
asked May 17 at 13:19
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edited May 17 at 23:22
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asked May 17 at 13:19
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edited May 17 at 23:22
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edited May 17 at 23:22
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edited May 17 at 23:22
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put on hold as primarily opinion-based by lbf, Chappo, Caleb, JJJ, aparente001 4 hours ago
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
put on hold as primarily opinion-based by lbf, Chappo, Caleb, JJJ, aparente001 4 hours ago
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Welcome to ELU, Victor. I am not sure whether you have looked at ELU's expectations for questions. Any question needs to show what steps have been taken to find out the answer to their own question and to set the question in some sort of context, so that any of us can see the point or purpose of knowing the answer. For example, I might suggest in reply that the word for someone who can neither think nor feel anything (assuming we are talking about a living person) would be 'unconscious'. That is the only state in which the state described could be true. But what, otherwise, do you mean?
– Tuffy
May 17 at 13:42
I edited the post to include an example sentence.
– S Conroy
May 17 at 13:46
3
What about An embryo hasn't developed consciousness / awareness. An embryo is senseless
– enxaneta
May 17 at 15:40
3
@enxaneta post your answer as an answer!
– scohe001
May 17 at 18:27
5
Not to get in to it, but I'd suggest not using senseless due to the potential ambiguity of the word in that specific context...
– BruceWayne
May 17 at 19:59
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Welcome to ELU, Victor. I am not sure whether you have looked at ELU's expectations for questions. Any question needs to show what steps have been taken to find out the answer to their own question and to set the question in some sort of context, so that any of us can see the point or purpose of knowing the answer. For example, I might suggest in reply that the word for someone who can neither think nor feel anything (assuming we are talking about a living person) would be 'unconscious'. That is the only state in which the state described could be true. But what, otherwise, do you mean?
– Tuffy
May 17 at 13:42
I edited the post to include an example sentence.
– S Conroy
May 17 at 13:46
3
What about An embryo hasn't developed consciousness / awareness. An embryo is senseless
– enxaneta
May 17 at 15:40
3
@enxaneta post your answer as an answer!
– scohe001
May 17 at 18:27
5
Not to get in to it, but I'd suggest not using senseless due to the potential ambiguity of the word in that specific context...
– BruceWayne
May 17 at 19:59
Welcome to ELU, Victor. I am not sure whether you have looked at ELU's expectations for questions. Any question needs to show what steps have been taken to find out the answer to their own question and to set the question in some sort of context, so that any of us can see the point or purpose of knowing the answer. For example, I might suggest in reply that the word for someone who can neither think nor feel anything (assuming we are talking about a living person) would be 'unconscious'. That is the only state in which the state described could be true. But what, otherwise, do you mean?
– Tuffy
May 17 at 13:42
Welcome to ELU, Victor. I am not sure whether you have looked at ELU's expectations for questions. Any question needs to show what steps have been taken to find out the answer to their own question and to set the question in some sort of context, so that any of us can see the point or purpose of knowing the answer. For example, I might suggest in reply that the word for someone who can neither think nor feel anything (assuming we are talking about a living person) would be 'unconscious'. That is the only state in which the state described could be true. But what, otherwise, do you mean?
– Tuffy
May 17 at 13:42
I edited the post to include an example sentence.
– S Conroy
May 17 at 13:46
I edited the post to include an example sentence.
– S Conroy
May 17 at 13:46
3
3
What about An embryo hasn't developed consciousness / awareness. An embryo is senseless
– enxaneta
May 17 at 15:40
What about An embryo hasn't developed consciousness / awareness. An embryo is senseless
– enxaneta
May 17 at 15:40
3
3
@enxaneta post your answer as an answer!
– scohe001
May 17 at 18:27
@enxaneta post your answer as an answer!
– scohe001
May 17 at 18:27
5
5
Not to get in to it, but I'd suggest not using senseless due to the potential ambiguity of the word in that specific context...
– BruceWayne
May 17 at 19:59
Not to get in to it, but I'd suggest not using senseless due to the potential ambiguity of the word in that specific context...
– BruceWayne
May 17 at 19:59
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An embryo hasn't yet developed sentience.
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
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Warning, this has connotations of lacking intelligence, the meaning regarding senses is secondary and not well known.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 8:09
@Ben Voigt. Are you sure? I've never heard or read 'sentience' used like that.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 12:55
Yes, that's one of the definitions further down in the link, the etymonline one. It doesn't say 'lacking intelligence', although if you are not capable of conscious perception then you won't be intelligent either, but nor can you be described as stupid. The label doesn't apply. At least that's how I see it.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 15:49
1
Sorry, I just realized what my actual object to "non-sentient" is, and it is hiding in plain sight there in the definition. An entity doesn't become sentient each morning when it wakes and non-sentient each evening when it falls asleep, sentience is an immutable property. A patient anesthetized on the operating table is still a sentient. Similarly although a human embyro doesn't think or feel, it does have the capacity/potential to do so, therefore it is sentient / has sentience.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 16:05
1
Right, it has sentient character, just not yet developed. "immature sentience" rather than non-sentient. So sentience would fit into the first blank in the question but non-sentient would not fit into the second.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 17:58
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I might give "insensate" a try and see if you like it.
ADJECTIVE
- Lacking physical sensation.
‘a patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate’
1.1 Lacking sympathy or compassion; unfeeling.
‘a positively insensate hatred’
- Completely lacking sense or reason.
2
‘insensate jabbering’
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
Oh, I hate this. An embryo isn't ready to do 3-D calculus -- but can we really say it doesn't have any physical sensation?
– aparente001
4 hours ago
@aparente001: OP states: "More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc" - I make no judgement of what they posit (this being English SE, and not a philosophy or meta-ethics SE), hence I am attempting to help OP find le mot juste - and based on the contents of OP's post, I felt this word worth their considering.
– GerardFalla
3 hours ago
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Per enxaneta's comment, both consciousness and awareness would fit. For consciousness, meanings 1 and 3 both work:
- the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
...
- full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life
Awareness carries mostly the same meaning, but has broader connotations:
the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness
Consciousness in particular is associated with self-awareness, which may be narrower than you want. In that case, awareness (or one of the other answers here) might fit better.
answered May 17 at 22:07
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An embryo hasn't yet developed sentience.
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
3,6411630
1
Warning, this has connotations of lacking intelligence, the meaning regarding senses is secondary and not well known.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 8:09
@Ben Voigt. Are you sure? I've never heard or read 'sentience' used like that.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 12:55
Yes, that's one of the definitions further down in the link, the etymonline one. It doesn't say 'lacking intelligence', although if you are not capable of conscious perception then you won't be intelligent either, but nor can you be described as stupid. The label doesn't apply. At least that's how I see it.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 15:49
1
Sorry, I just realized what my actual object to "non-sentient" is, and it is hiding in plain sight there in the definition. An entity doesn't become sentient each morning when it wakes and non-sentient each evening when it falls asleep, sentience is an immutable property. A patient anesthetized on the operating table is still a sentient. Similarly although a human embyro doesn't think or feel, it does have the capacity/potential to do so, therefore it is sentient / has sentience.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 16:05
1
Right, it has sentient character, just not yet developed. "immature sentience" rather than non-sentient. So sentience would fit into the first blank in the question but non-sentient would not fit into the second.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 17:58
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show 2 more comments
An embryo hasn't yet developed sentience.
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
3,6411630
1
Warning, this has connotations of lacking intelligence, the meaning regarding senses is secondary and not well known.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 8:09
@Ben Voigt. Are you sure? I've never heard or read 'sentience' used like that.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 12:55
Yes, that's one of the definitions further down in the link, the etymonline one. It doesn't say 'lacking intelligence', although if you are not capable of conscious perception then you won't be intelligent either, but nor can you be described as stupid. The label doesn't apply. At least that's how I see it.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 15:49
1
Sorry, I just realized what my actual object to "non-sentient" is, and it is hiding in plain sight there in the definition. An entity doesn't become sentient each morning when it wakes and non-sentient each evening when it falls asleep, sentience is an immutable property. A patient anesthetized on the operating table is still a sentient. Similarly although a human embyro doesn't think or feel, it does have the capacity/potential to do so, therefore it is sentient / has sentience.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 16:05
1
Right, it has sentient character, just not yet developed. "immature sentience" rather than non-sentient. So sentience would fit into the first blank in the question but non-sentient would not fit into the second.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 17:58
|
show 2 more comments
An embryo hasn't yet developed sentience.
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
3,6411630
An embryo hasn't yet developed sentience.
sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
3,6411630
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
3,6411630
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
3,6411630
answered May 17 at 13:41
S ConroyS Conroy
3,6411630
3,6411630
1
Warning, this has connotations of lacking intelligence, the meaning regarding senses is secondary and not well known.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 8:09
@Ben Voigt. Are you sure? I've never heard or read 'sentience' used like that.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 12:55
Yes, that's one of the definitions further down in the link, the etymonline one. It doesn't say 'lacking intelligence', although if you are not capable of conscious perception then you won't be intelligent either, but nor can you be described as stupid. The label doesn't apply. At least that's how I see it.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 15:49
1
Sorry, I just realized what my actual object to "non-sentient" is, and it is hiding in plain sight there in the definition. An entity doesn't become sentient each morning when it wakes and non-sentient each evening when it falls asleep, sentience is an immutable property. A patient anesthetized on the operating table is still a sentient. Similarly although a human embyro doesn't think or feel, it does have the capacity/potential to do so, therefore it is sentient / has sentience.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 16:05
1
Right, it has sentient character, just not yet developed. "immature sentience" rather than non-sentient. So sentience would fit into the first blank in the question but non-sentient would not fit into the second.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 17:58
|
show 2 more comments
1
Warning, this has connotations of lacking intelligence, the meaning regarding senses is secondary and not well known.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 8:09
@Ben Voigt. Are you sure? I've never heard or read 'sentience' used like that.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 12:55
Yes, that's one of the definitions further down in the link, the etymonline one. It doesn't say 'lacking intelligence', although if you are not capable of conscious perception then you won't be intelligent either, but nor can you be described as stupid. The label doesn't apply. At least that's how I see it.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 15:49
1
Sorry, I just realized what my actual object to "non-sentient" is, and it is hiding in plain sight there in the definition. An entity doesn't become sentient each morning when it wakes and non-sentient each evening when it falls asleep, sentience is an immutable property. A patient anesthetized on the operating table is still a sentient. Similarly although a human embyro doesn't think or feel, it does have the capacity/potential to do so, therefore it is sentient / has sentience.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 16:05
1
Right, it has sentient character, just not yet developed. "immature sentience" rather than non-sentient. So sentience would fit into the first blank in the question but non-sentient would not fit into the second.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 17:58
1
1
Warning, this has connotations of lacking intelligence, the meaning regarding senses is secondary and not well known.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 8:09
Warning, this has connotations of lacking intelligence, the meaning regarding senses is secondary and not well known.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 8:09
@Ben Voigt. Are you sure? I've never heard or read 'sentience' used like that.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 12:55
@Ben Voigt. Are you sure? I've never heard or read 'sentience' used like that.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 12:55
Yes, that's one of the definitions further down in the link, the etymonline one. It doesn't say 'lacking intelligence', although if you are not capable of conscious perception then you won't be intelligent either, but nor can you be described as stupid. The label doesn't apply. At least that's how I see it.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 15:49
Yes, that's one of the definitions further down in the link, the etymonline one. It doesn't say 'lacking intelligence', although if you are not capable of conscious perception then you won't be intelligent either, but nor can you be described as stupid. The label doesn't apply. At least that's how I see it.
– S Conroy
May 18 at 15:49
1
1
Sorry, I just realized what my actual object to "non-sentient" is, and it is hiding in plain sight there in the definition. An entity doesn't become sentient each morning when it wakes and non-sentient each evening when it falls asleep, sentience is an immutable property. A patient anesthetized on the operating table is still a sentient. Similarly although a human embyro doesn't think or feel, it does have the capacity/potential to do so, therefore it is sentient / has sentience.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 16:05
Sorry, I just realized what my actual object to "non-sentient" is, and it is hiding in plain sight there in the definition. An entity doesn't become sentient each morning when it wakes and non-sentient each evening when it falls asleep, sentience is an immutable property. A patient anesthetized on the operating table is still a sentient. Similarly although a human embyro doesn't think or feel, it does have the capacity/potential to do so, therefore it is sentient / has sentience.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 16:05
1
1
Right, it has sentient character, just not yet developed. "immature sentience" rather than non-sentient. So sentience would fit into the first blank in the question but non-sentient would not fit into the second.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 17:58
Right, it has sentient character, just not yet developed. "immature sentience" rather than non-sentient. So sentience would fit into the first blank in the question but non-sentient would not fit into the second.
– Ben Voigt
May 18 at 17:58
|
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I might give "insensate" a try and see if you like it.
ADJECTIVE
- Lacking physical sensation.
‘a patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate’
1.1 Lacking sympathy or compassion; unfeeling.
‘a positively insensate hatred’
- Completely lacking sense or reason.
2
‘insensate jabbering’
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
Oh, I hate this. An embryo isn't ready to do 3-D calculus -- but can we really say it doesn't have any physical sensation?
– aparente001
4 hours ago
@aparente001: OP states: "More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc" - I make no judgement of what they posit (this being English SE, and not a philosophy or meta-ethics SE), hence I am attempting to help OP find le mot juste - and based on the contents of OP's post, I felt this word worth their considering.
– GerardFalla
3 hours ago
add a comment |
I might give "insensate" a try and see if you like it.
ADJECTIVE
- Lacking physical sensation.
‘a patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate’
1.1 Lacking sympathy or compassion; unfeeling.
‘a positively insensate hatred’
- Completely lacking sense or reason.
2
‘insensate jabbering’
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
Oh, I hate this. An embryo isn't ready to do 3-D calculus -- but can we really say it doesn't have any physical sensation?
– aparente001
4 hours ago
@aparente001: OP states: "More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc" - I make no judgement of what they posit (this being English SE, and not a philosophy or meta-ethics SE), hence I am attempting to help OP find le mot juste - and based on the contents of OP's post, I felt this word worth their considering.
– GerardFalla
3 hours ago
add a comment |
I might give "insensate" a try and see if you like it.
ADJECTIVE
- Lacking physical sensation.
‘a patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate’
1.1 Lacking sympathy or compassion; unfeeling.
‘a positively insensate hatred’
- Completely lacking sense or reason.
2
‘insensate jabbering’
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
I might give "insensate" a try and see if you like it.
ADJECTIVE
- Lacking physical sensation.
‘a patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate’
1.1 Lacking sympathy or compassion; unfeeling.
‘a positively insensate hatred’
- Completely lacking sense or reason.
2
‘insensate jabbering’
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
answered May 17 at 15:31
GerardFallaGerardFalla
988112
988112
Oh, I hate this. An embryo isn't ready to do 3-D calculus -- but can we really say it doesn't have any physical sensation?
– aparente001
4 hours ago
@aparente001: OP states: "More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc" - I make no judgement of what they posit (this being English SE, and not a philosophy or meta-ethics SE), hence I am attempting to help OP find le mot juste - and based on the contents of OP's post, I felt this word worth their considering.
– GerardFalla
3 hours ago
add a comment |
Oh, I hate this. An embryo isn't ready to do 3-D calculus -- but can we really say it doesn't have any physical sensation?
– aparente001
4 hours ago
@aparente001: OP states: "More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc" - I make no judgement of what they posit (this being English SE, and not a philosophy or meta-ethics SE), hence I am attempting to help OP find le mot juste - and based on the contents of OP's post, I felt this word worth their considering.
– GerardFalla
3 hours ago
Oh, I hate this. An embryo isn't ready to do 3-D calculus -- but can we really say it doesn't have any physical sensation?
– aparente001
4 hours ago
Oh, I hate this. An embryo isn't ready to do 3-D calculus -- but can we really say it doesn't have any physical sensation?
– aparente001
4 hours ago
@aparente001: OP states: "More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc" - I make no judgement of what they posit (this being English SE, and not a philosophy or meta-ethics SE), hence I am attempting to help OP find le mot juste - and based on the contents of OP's post, I felt this word worth their considering.
– GerardFalla
3 hours ago
@aparente001: OP states: "More specifically I'm thinking of a word that describes how embryos don't feel anything or think, etc" - I make no judgement of what they posit (this being English SE, and not a philosophy or meta-ethics SE), hence I am attempting to help OP find le mot juste - and based on the contents of OP's post, I felt this word worth their considering.
– GerardFalla
3 hours ago
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Per enxaneta's comment, both consciousness and awareness would fit. For consciousness, meanings 1 and 3 both work:
- the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
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- full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life
Awareness carries mostly the same meaning, but has broader connotations:
the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness
Consciousness in particular is associated with self-awareness, which may be narrower than you want. In that case, awareness (or one of the other answers here) might fit better.
answered May 17 at 22:07
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Per enxaneta's comment, both consciousness and awareness would fit. For consciousness, meanings 1 and 3 both work:
- the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
...
- full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life
Awareness carries mostly the same meaning, but has broader connotations:
the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness
Consciousness in particular is associated with self-awareness, which may be narrower than you want. In that case, awareness (or one of the other answers here) might fit better.
answered May 17 at 22:07
MalcolmMalcolm
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Per enxaneta's comment, both consciousness and awareness would fit. For consciousness, meanings 1 and 3 both work:
- the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
...
- full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life
Awareness carries mostly the same meaning, but has broader connotations:
the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness
Consciousness in particular is associated with self-awareness, which may be narrower than you want. In that case, awareness (or one of the other answers here) might fit better.
answered May 17 at 22:07
MalcolmMalcolm
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Per enxaneta's comment, both consciousness and awareness would fit. For consciousness, meanings 1 and 3 both work:
- the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
...
- full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life
Awareness carries mostly the same meaning, but has broader connotations:
the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness
Consciousness in particular is associated with self-awareness, which may be narrower than you want. In that case, awareness (or one of the other answers here) might fit better.
answered May 17 at 22:07
MalcolmMalcolm
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answered May 17 at 22:07
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Welcome to ELU, Victor. I am not sure whether you have looked at ELU's expectations for questions. Any question needs to show what steps have been taken to find out the answer to their own question and to set the question in some sort of context, so that any of us can see the point or purpose of knowing the answer. For example, I might suggest in reply that the word for someone who can neither think nor feel anything (assuming we are talking about a living person) would be 'unconscious'. That is the only state in which the state described could be true. But what, otherwise, do you mean?
– Tuffy
May 17 at 13:42
I edited the post to include an example sentence.
– S Conroy
May 17 at 13:46
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What about An embryo hasn't developed consciousness / awareness. An embryo is senseless
– enxaneta
May 17 at 15:40
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@enxaneta post your answer as an answer!
– scohe001
May 17 at 18:27
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Not to get in to it, but I'd suggest not using senseless due to the potential ambiguity of the word in that specific context...
– BruceWayne
May 17 at 19:59