conscious
Americanadjective
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aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
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fully aware of or sensitive to something (often followed byof ).
conscious of one's own faults; He wasn't conscious of the gossip about his past.
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- percipient, knowing
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having the mental faculties fully active.
He was conscious during the operation.
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known to oneself; felt.
conscious guilt.
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aware of what one is doing.
a conscious liar.
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aware of oneself; self-conscious.
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deliberate; intentional.
a conscious insult; a conscious effort.
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acutely aware of or concerned about.
money-conscious; a diet-conscious society.
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Obsolete. inwardly sensible of wrongdoing.
noun
adjective
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alert and awake; not sleeping or comatose
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aware of one's surroundings, one's own thoughts and motivations, etc
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aware of and giving value or emphasis to a particular fact or phenomenon
I am conscious of your great kindness to me
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( in combination )
clothes-conscious
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done with full awareness; deliberate
a conscious effort
conscious rudeness
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denoting or relating to a part of the human mind that is aware of a person's self, environment, and mental activity and that to a certain extent determines his choices of action
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( as noun )
the conscious is only a small part of the mind
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Related Words
Conscious, aware, cognizant refer to an individual sense of recognition of something within or without oneself. Conscious implies to be awake or awakened to an inner realization of a fact, a truth, a condition, etc.: to be conscious of an extreme weariness. Aware lays the emphasis on sense perceptions insofar as they are the object of conscious recognition: He was aware of the odor of tobacco. Cognizant lays the emphasis on an outer recognition more on the level of reason and knowledge than on the sensory level alone: He was cognizant of their drawbacks.
Other Word Forms
- consciously adverb
- consciousness noun
- half-conscious adjective
- half-consciousness noun
- nonconscious adjective
- nonconsciousness noun
- overconscious adjective
- overconsciousness noun
- quasi-conscious adjective
Etymology
Origin of conscious
First recorded in 1625–35; from Latin conscius “sharing knowledge with,” equivalent to con- con- + sci- (stem of scīre “to know”; science ) + -us -ous; nice
Example Sentences
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As patients are placed under conscious sedation an anaesthetist isn't required.
From BBC
Logan expressed optimism that inflation will decline further toward the Fed’s 2% target this year, but said she remains conscious of risks that progress could stall.
Overwhelming evidence from subsequent investigations - including a second set of inquests in 2016 - found many victims were conscious at least half an hour later.
From BBC
Hypocrisy is the more-or-less conscious habit of saying one thing and doing another; projection is the mostly unconscious process of displacing one’s own unacceptable intentions onto other people’s presumed desires.
From Salon
Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
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