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con·scious (kän′s̸həs)

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

Etymology: L conscius, knowing, aware < conscire: see conscience

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conscious Idioms

the conscious

Psychol. that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
see also unconscious, preconscious

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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