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con·scious

s) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

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.
Capable of thought, will, or perception: the development of conscious life on the planet.
Subjectively known or felt: conscious remorse.
Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate: a conscious insult; made a conscious effort to speak more clearly.
Inwardly attentive or sensible; mindful: was increasingly conscious of being watched.
Especially aware of or preoccupied with. Often used in combination: a cost-conscious approach to further development; a health-conscious diet.

NOUN:

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

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin cnscius : com-, com- + scre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
conscious·ly(Adverb)

Thesaurus: synonyms for conscious

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