conscious
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
The English word “conscious” has 7 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
- Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
- Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
- Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
- Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
- Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
noun
- The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
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.
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