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conscious

adj
/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/US/ˈkɒn.ʃəs/UK

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.

  1. borrowed from cōnscius

Definitions

  1. Alert, awake

    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 existence; aware of one's own awareness.

    • Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.

  3. Aware of, sensitive to

    Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.

    • I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
    • Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. 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.
      • Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person.

    2. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

      • conscious guilt

    3. Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.

      • 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..
      • 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.
      • c. 1634, John Dryden (translator), Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum sacrorum liber The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

    4. The part of the mind that is aware of itself

      The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

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Derived

calorie-conscious, class conscious, class-conscious, coconscious, conscious and oriented, conscious hip hop, consciously, consciousness, conscious parallelism, conscious rap, conscious sedation, conscious uncoupling, cost-conscious, dysconscious, ecoconscious, extraconscious, fashion-conscious, foreconscious, health-conscious, hyperconscious, inconscious, metaconscious, nonconscious, overconscious, postconscious, preconscious, price-conscious, pseudoconscious, pseudo-conscious, safety-conscious, self-conscious, semiconscious, semi-conscious, subconscious, superconscious, supraconscious, unconscious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at conscious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at conscious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at conscious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA