Consciousness

Word CONSCIOUSNESS
Character 13
Hyphenation con scious ness
Pronunciations /ˈkɒnʃəsnəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Consciousness"

What do we mean by consciousness?

The state or condition of being conscious. noun

A sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group. noun

Special awareness or sensitivity. noun

Alertness to or concern for a particular issue or situation. noun

In psychoanalysis, the conscious. noun

The state of being conscious; the act or state of mind which distinguishes a waking from a sleeping person; the state of being aware of one's mental acts or states. noun

Specifically Self-consciousness (which See). noun

Perception; thought; intellectual action in general. noun

A general phase of thought and feeling: as, the moral consciousness; the religious consciousness. noun

An intuitive perception or persuasion; a state of being aware; an inward recognition;a feeling. noun

The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. noun

Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention. noun

Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence. noun

The state of being conscious or aware; awareness. noun

Having knowledge of noun

An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation noun

The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Consciousness

The word "consciousness" in example sentences

Tribal consciousness is _revolutionary _consciousness: mutable and fluid and transforming. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“It introduced into the national consciousness, ” Henry James wrote in 1879, by the “national consciousness” undoubtedly meaning his own as well, “a certain sense of proportion and relation, of the world being a more complicated place than it had hitherto seemed, the future more treacherous, success more difficult … ❋ Unknown (1921)

Yet, all the while, our consciousness, _so far as we are conscious of our consciousness_, was busy with other thoughts. " ❋ Joel Dorman Steele (N/A)

While not fully accepting the theory of "duplex personality," _i.e. _, active consciousness and _subliminal consciousness_ (Myers 'name for the pseudo-dormant consciousness), as having been proven, Newbold says: "Of all the theories developed from the point of independence, Mr. Myers' is the most comprehensive in its scope, is kept in most constant touch with what the author regards as facts, and displays the greatest philosophic insight. "[ ❋ James Weir (1881)

Hereafter, then, we shall continue to use the term consciousness as descriptive of that part of our mentality which constitutes what is commonly known as the "mind"; while that mental force, which, so far as our animal life is concerned, operates through the sympathetic nerve system, we shall hereafter describe as "_sub_conscious." ❋ Warren Hilton (N/A)

Coming again, to our consideration of the term consciousness, we will take ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Do any creatures other than modern-day people possess what we call consciousness? ❋ Carolyn Bucior (2012)

How do different “programs,” all running at once, interact with each other to produce what we call consciousness? ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

Heinz Pagels, the esteemed theoretical physicist, once stated: "If you deny the objectivity of the world, unless you observe it and are conscious of it (as many prominent physicists have), then you end up with solipsism -- the belief that your consciousness is the only one." ❋ M.D. Robert Lanza (2010)

I realize that the ability to have such ideas register in my consciousness is a Divine gift. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Crucial to an understanding of this consciousness is the mind's dialectical staging of it as the overcoming of its own recalcitrance to thought. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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