conscious
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adj \ˈkän(t)-shəs\Definition of CONSCIOUS
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: perceiving, apprehending, or noticing with a degree of controlled thought or observation <conscious of having succeeded> <was conscious that someone was watching>
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archaic : sharing another's knowledge or awareness of an inward state or outward fact
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: personally felt <conscious guilt>
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: capable of or marked by thought, will, design, or perception
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: done or acting with critical awareness <a conscious effort to do better>
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a : likely to notice, consider, or appraise <a bargain-conscious shopper> b : being concerned or interested <a budget-conscious businessman> c : marked by strong feelings or notions <a race-conscious society>
— con·scious·ly adverb
See Examples of CONSCIOUS
- Is the patient conscious yet?
- He was fully conscious when we found him.
- the capacity for conscious thought
- The chances of being admitted conscious to a hospital without being pressed to produce a living will, have become virtually nil … —Joan Didion, New York Review of Books, 9 June 2005
- “Was she good-looking?” “Actually, my conscious mind no longer remembers anything about her physical appearance. She went the way of my seventh-grade French.” —Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan's Week, 1994
- Incidentally, neither my mother nor I was conscious of any rudeness. —Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being, 1979
- Bilbo bowed. He had no hat to take off, and was painfully conscious of his many missing buttons. —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937
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Origin of CONSCIOUS
Latin conscius, from com- + scire to know
First Known Use: 1592
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