conscious en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɒntʃəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
- /ˈkɒn.ʃəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- kŏnʹshəs (General-American)
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.
Meanings
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Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
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Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.
1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:
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Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer.
1955, Arthur Smithies, The Budgetary Process in the United States, page 290:I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
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Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
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.
1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43:Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person.
2015, Jamie Kornegay, Soil: A Novel, page 214:
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Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
conscious guilt
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(rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject ; but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.
1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:c. 1634, John Dryden (translator), Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum sacrorum liber The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, “Yes; it is my sister’s hair. The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know.” Elinor had met his eye, and looked conscious likewise..
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 229:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most conscious | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more conscious | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
asleep · unconscious · unaware
Deriveds
postconscious · self-conscious · superconscious · nonconscious · conscious and oriented · consciously · extraconscious · conscious parallelism · class conscious · cost-conscious · unconscious · conscious hip hop · semi-conscious · class-conscious · pseudo-conscious · price-conscious · subconscious · ecoconscious · safety-conscious · conscious sedation · preconscious · health-conscious · calorie-conscious · semiconscious · overconscious · hyperconscious · dysconscious · coconscious · consciousness · fashion-conscious · pseudoconscious · foreconscious · conscious automatism · conscious uncoupling · conscious rap · inconscious · supraconscious · metaconscious
Relateds
Synonyms
intentional · voluntary · wilful · intentional deliberate
Translations (99)
bg в съзнание (alert, awake) · fr conscient (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · la cōnsciēns (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · it cosciente (aware of one's own existence) · nl bewust (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · hu tisztában van (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · nl bij bewustzijn (alert, awake) · ro conștient (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · uk прито́мний (alert, awake) · is vita af sér (alert, awake) · he מודע (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · sv medveten (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · hu tudatos (aware of one's own existence) · fi tietoinen (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · ru сознаю́щий (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · ka ცნობიერი (aware of one's own existence) · de bewusst (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · es consciente (alert, awake) · sv vid sans (alert, awake) · pl świadomy (alert, awake) · hu tudatos (alert, awake) · he בהכרה (alert, awake) · nl bewust (aware of one's own existence) · mi tūoho (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · tl maymalay (alert, awake) · sh svjȅstan (alert, awake) · bg осъзнат (aware of one's own existence) · hu magánál van (alert, awake) · el ξύπνιος (alert, awake) · he מודע לעצמו (aware of one's own existence) · hu éber (alert, awake) · fi tajuissaan (alert, awake) · it cosciente (alert, awake) · eo konscia (alert, awake) · tr uyanık (alert, awake) · hu tudatos (deliberate, intentional) · mk свесен (alert, awake) · pt consciente (alert, awake) · ga aithne a bheih i (alert, awake) · ota خبردار (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · nl wakker (alert, awake) · nl alert (alert, awake) · bg съзнателен (aware of one's own existence) · tr farkında (alert, awake) · it consapevole (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · is meðvitaður (deliberate, intentional) · de bewusst (deliberate, intentional) · el συνειδητός (aware of one's own existence) · hi सचेत (alert, awake) · nl bewust (deliberate, intentional) · fr conscient (aware of one's own existence) · cs při vědomí (alert, awake) · fi tietoinen (aware of one's own existence) · la cōnscius (alert, awake) · mi mauriora (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · hu tudatában van (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · sh свје̏стан (alert, awake) · de bewusst (aware of one's own existence) · de bei Bewusstsein (alert, awake) · ca conscient (aware of one's own existence) · la cōnsciēns (aware of one's own existence) · ga tuig go (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · ca conscient (alert, awake) · de wach (alert, awake) · ka ფხიზელი (alert, awake) · sk pri vedomí (alert, awake) · hi जागरूक (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · ga comhfhiosach (aware of one's own existence) · sv medveten (aware of one's own existence) · el συνειδητός (alert, awake) · xqa اَذِغْ (alert, awake) · ro conștient (alert, awake) · pl przytomny (alert, awake) · bg съзнаващ (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · he ער (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · pt consciente (aware of one's own existence) · he מודע (alert, awake) · sk vedomý (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · ru находя́щийся в сознании (alert, awake) · ka ცნობიერი (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · tr farkında (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · bg усещащ (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · izh tiitoin (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · it cosciente (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · mi maurioho (alert, awake) · tr ayık (alert, awake) · fr conscient (alert, awake) · cs vědomý (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · sv medveten (deliberate, intentional) · ga comhfhiosach (deliberate, intentional) · pt consciente (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · it conscio (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · de aufmerksam (alert, awake) · fi hereillä (alert, awake) · gd mothachail (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · is meðvitaður (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · la cōnsciēns (alert, awake) · el συνειδητός (aware of or alert to, sensitive to) · izh tiitoin (aware of one's own existence)