Word.ws English Dictionary

hypersentience

hypersentience noun: a state above or beyond sentience.

Noun

hypersentience (uncountable)

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

Origin of hypersentience

From hyper- + sentience.

Questions about hypersentience

What does hypersentience mean?
Hypersentience means a state above or beyond sentience.
What part of speech is hypersentience?
Hypersentience is a noun.

Words near hypersentience in the dictionary

  1. hypersensuality
  2. hypersensually
  3. hypersensuous
  4. hypersentence
  5. hypersentences
  6. hypersentience
  7. hypersentient
  8. hypersentimental
  9. hyperseptated
  10. hyperseptation
  11. hypersequent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hypersentience (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hypersentience.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hypersentience. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.