conscious

Meaning

Adj

1. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
2. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
3. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
4. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
5. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
6. (rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.

Noun

The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

Synonyms

aware

awake

knowing

sensible

deliberate

witting

alert

intentional

cognizant

realize

sentient

conscientious

lucid

mindful

on purpose

peace of mind

perceptive

privy

purposive

qualmish

reasonable

rejoice

roused

sane

self-conscious

sensibility

sound

🔉

think

🤔

vigilant

volitional

wake up

ware

well-educated

well-read

wilful

alert to

conscious of

willful negligence

clear to somebody

I did not realize

acquainted

aware of something

alive

aware of

cognisant

consciously

consciousness

educated

instructed

intelligently

Translations

conscient

cosciente

bewusst

consciente

consciente

conscio

bewust

consapevole

bei Bewusstsein

welbewust

bilinçli

συνειδητός

conscient

واع

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/

Etymology

Late 16th century 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.