conscious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   intentionally conceived

   a conscious effort to speak more slowly

2. 2
   adj

   Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

   The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.

3. 3
   adj

   Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.

   The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

4. 4
   adj

   Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.

   I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis

5. 5
   adj

   Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.

   He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.

6. 6
   adj

   Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

   conscious guilt

7. 7
   adj

   Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.

   He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, “Yes; it is my sister’s hair. The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know.” Elinor had met his eye, and looked conscious likewise..

8. 8
   adj

   (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something

Etymology

First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.