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con⋅scious

  [kon-shuhs]
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–adjective
1. aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
2. fully aware of or sensitive to something (often fol. by of): conscious of one's own faults; He wasn't conscious of the gossip about his past.
3. having the mental faculties fully active: He was conscious during the operation.
4. known to oneself; felt: conscious guilt.
5. aware of what one is doing: a conscious liar.
6. aware of oneself; self-conscious.
7. deliberate; intentional: a conscious insult; a conscious effort.
8. acutely aware of or concerned about: money-conscious; a diet-conscious society.
9. Obsolete. inwardly sensible of wrongdoing.
–noun
10. the conscious, Psychoanalysis. the part of the mind comprising psychic material of which the individual is aware.
Origin:
1625–35; < L conscius sharing knowledge with, equiv. to con- con- + sci- (s. of scīre to know; see science ) + -us -ous; cf. nice

Related forms:
con⋅scious⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
2. knowing, percipient. Conscious, aware, cognizant refer to an individual sense of recognition of something within or without oneself. Conscious implies to be awake or awakened to an inner realization of a fact, a truth, a condition, etc.: to be conscious of an extreme weariness. Aware lays the emphasis on sense perceptions insofar as they are the object of conscious recognition: He was aware of the odor of tobacco. Cognizant lays the emphasis on an outer recognition more on the level of reason and knowledge than on the sensory level alone: He was cognizant of their drawbacks.
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con·scious   (kŏn'shəs)   
adj.  

    1. Having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. See Synonyms at aware.

    2. 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 sensible; mindful: was increasingly conscious of being watched.

  6. Especially aware of or preoccupied with. Often used in combination: a cost-conscious approach to further development; a health-conscious diet.

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

[From Latin cōnscius : com-, com- + scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
con'scious·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

conscious 
1601, from L. conscius "knowing, aware," from conscire (see conscience); probably a loan-translation of Gk. syneidos. A word adopted from the Latin poets and much mocked at first. Sense of "active and awake" is from 1837.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1con·scious
Pronunciation: 'kän-ch&s
Function: adjective
1 : capable of or marked by thought, will, design, orperception : relating to, being, or being part of consciousness conscious mind> <conscious and unconscious processes>
2 : having mentalfaculties undulled by sleep, faintness, or stupor conscious after the anesthesia wore off> —con·scious·ly /-lE/ adverb

Main Entry: 2conscious
Function: noun
: CONSCIOUSNESS 3
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Medical Dictionary

conscious con·scious (kŏn'shəs)
adj.

  1. Having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts.

  2. Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate.

n.
In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant.
con'scious·ly adv.

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