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Italian
Etymology
From senzi(ente) (“sentient”) + -enza (“-ence”), on the example of English sentience.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /senˈt͡sjɛn.t͡sa/
- Rhymes: -ɛntsa
- Hyphenation: sen‧zièn‧za
Noun
senzienza f (plural senzienze)
- (neologism, usually uncountable) sentience (state or quality of being sentient)
1981, Gigliola Porzi, Roberta Rambelli, transl., Karma: la legge universale di armonia, Rome: Edizioni Mediterranee, translation of Karma - The universal law of harmony by Virginia Hanson, published 1992:La vita si è evoluta dalle profondità abissali della materia; la senzienza animale si è evoluta dall'impeto della vita; l'autocoscienza razionale dell'uomo si è evoluta dalla matrice a spirale della senzienza animale.- Life evolved from the unfathomable depths of matter. Animal sentience evolved from the force of life. Man's rational self-awareness evolved from the spiral-shaped matrix of animal sentience.
Further reading
- senzienza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana