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consciousness Definition


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conscious
adj
    1. Awake, alert and aware of one's thoughts and one's surroundings.
      Thesaurus: cognizant, sentient, responsive, alert, apprehending, perceiving.
    2. Aware; knowing.
      Example: She was conscious that someone was watching her
    3. Deliberate.
      Example: I made a conscious effort to be polite
      Thesaurus: intentional, deliberate, willful, calculated, premeditated, studied; Antonym: inadvertent, unwitting.
    4. Concerned, especially too concerned, with.
      Example: image-conscious
noun
    1. The part of the human mind which is responsible for such awareness, and is concerned with perceiving and reacting to external objects and events.
Derivative: consciously
adverb
    Derivative: consciousness
      The state of being conscious.
      The state of being aware of something
        Thesaurus: awareness, sentience, apprehension, recognition, knowledge, intuition, realization, sensibility.
      The physical and mental state of being awake and fully aware of one's environment, thoughts and feelings.
    Etymology: 17c: from Latin conscius knowing something with others, from scire to know.



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