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Conscious

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Adjective

1. conscious, witting

intentionally conceived

Example Sentences:
'a conscious effort to speak more slowly'
'a conscious policy'

2. conscious

knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts

Example Sentences:
'remained conscious during the operation'
'conscious of his faults'
'became conscious that he was being followed'

3. conscious

(followed by of') showing realization or recognition of something

Example Sentences:
'few voters seem conscious of the issue's importance'
'conscious of having succeeded'
'the careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Conscious

see synonyms of conscious
adjective
1. 
a. 
alert and awake; not sleeping or comatose
b. 
aware of one's surroundings, one's own thoughts and motivations, etc
2. 
a. 
aware of and giving value or emphasis to a particular fact or phenomenon
I am conscious of your great kindness to me
b. 
(in combination)
clothes-conscious
3. 
done with full awareness; deliberate
a conscious effort
conscious rudeness
4. 
a. 
denoting or relating to a part of the human mind that is aware of a person's self, environment, and mental activity and that to a certain extent determines his or her choices of action
b. 
(as noun)
the conscious is only a small part of the mind

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Conscious

see synonyms of conscious
adjective
1. 
having a feeling or knowledge (of one's own sensations, feelings, etc. or of external things); knowing or feeling (that something is or was happening or existing); aware; cognizant
2. 
able to feel and think; in the normal waking state
3. 
aware of oneself as a thinking being; knowing what one is doing and why
4. 
self-conscious
5. 
accompanied by an awareness of what one is thinking, feeling, and doing; intentional
conscious humor
6. 
known to or felt by oneself
conscious guilt

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Conscious

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adj.
1.
a. Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. See Synonyms at aware.
b. Mentally perceptive or alert; awake: The patient remained fully conscious after the local anesthetic was administered.
2. Capable of thought, will, or perception: the development of conscious life on the planet.
3. Subjectively known or felt: conscious remorse.
4. Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate: a conscious insult; made a conscious effort to speak more clearly.
5. Inwardly attentive or sensitive to something: As he spoke, he became increasingly conscious of his high-pitched voice.
6. Showing awareness of or preoccupation with something. Often used in combination: a cost-conscious approach to health care; a value-conscious shopper.
n.
In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant; consciousness.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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