conscious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Awake and able to think and notice things.

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

2. 2
   adj

   Aware of or noticing something.

   I was conscious of a noise behind me.

3. 3
   adj

   Deliberate and done on purpose, with full awareness.

   She made a conscious effort to speak more slowly.

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.

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