conscious
//ˈkɑn.ʃəs//
Forms
- Comparative
- more conscious
- Superlative
- most conscious
- Plural
- consciouses
Definitions
1.Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
- The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
2.Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
- Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
3.Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
- Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
- Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer.
4.Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
- Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person.
- He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
1.The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4175
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
First use appears c.
1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.