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consciousness
[ kon-shuhs-nis ]
noun
- the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- the thoughts and feelings, collectively, of an individual or of an aggregate of people:
the moral consciousness of a nation.
- full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life:
to regain consciousness after fainting.
- awareness of something for what it is; internal knowledge:
consciousness of wrongdoing.
- concern, interest, or acute awareness:
class consciousness.
- the mental activity of which a person is aware as contrasted with unconscious mental processes.
- Philosophy. the mind or the mental faculties as characterized by thought, feelings, and volition.
Other Word Forms
- ܲd·Dzsdzܲ·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of consciousness1
Idioms and Phrases
- raise one's consciousness, to increase one's awareness and understanding of one's own needs, behavior, attitudes, etc., especially as a member of a particular social or political group.
Example Sentences
Some also report experiencing altered states of consciousness, in which they see visions or resurface forgotten memories.
The group’s motto says it all: “As the cowboy wrangles cattle, we wrangle consciousness.”
The saga is a stark reminder of the emotional place that trees occupy in Britain's national consciousness - coming not long after the iconic Sycamore Gap tree was felled at Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.
Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective consciousness.
All link back to an endless war and a homeland as fragmented as the narrator’s consciousness and soul.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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