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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
“Monument Eternal” deftly repurposes archival materials, such as programs from ashram services and vintage concert bills, alongside dreamy images of Turiya that exude divine consciousness, the way a church might display saints or priests.
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.
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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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