Conscious Definition

kŏnshəs

adjective

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.

Webster's New World

Able to feel and think; in the normal waking state.

Webster's New World

Mentally perceptive or alert; awake.

The patient remained fully conscious after the local anesthetic was administered.

American Heritage Medicine

Capable of thought, will, or perception.

The development of conscious life on the planet.

American Heritage Medicine

Aware of oneself as a thinking being; knowing what one is doing and why.

Webster's New World

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noun

In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant; consciousness.

American Heritage Medicine

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affix

Aware of and attaching importance to.

Status-conscious.

Webster's New World

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Conscious

the conscious

Origin of Conscious

From Latin cōnscius com- com- scīre to know skei- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin conscius, itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).

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