consciência
Meaning
- (feminine) conscience, consciousness (moral sense)
- (feminine) conscience, consciousness (moral sense)
- (feminine) spontaneous and more or less vague knowledge; impression
- (feminine) part of psychic activity of which the subject has intuitive knowledge
- (feminine) state in which the subject knows himself as such, and distinguishes himself from the objects that surround him
- (feminine) ability to make value judgments about one's own actions
- (feminine) honesty; righteousness
- (feminine) neatness; scruple
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cons‧ci‧ên‧ci‧a
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kõ.siˈẽ.si.ɐ/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnscientia, from con- (“with”) + scientia (“knowledge”).
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