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adjective

Conscious adj.

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. "Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought."

Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. "Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt." "The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing."

Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt. "With conscious terrors vex me round."

Synonyms: Aware; apprised; sensible; felt; known.

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Etymology of 'Conscious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conscious" Quotes from Famous Books

... Christmas the discontented fir tree was the first to fall. As the axe cut sharply through the stem, and divided the pith, the tree fell with a groan to the earth, conscious of pain and faintness, and forgetting all its dreams of happiness, in sorrow at leaving its home in the forest. It knew that it should never again see its dear old companions, the trees, nor the little bushes and many-colored flowers that had grown by its side; ...

— Christmas Stories And Legends • Various

... these amusements, the hours passed away uncounted; his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not toward what point to travel. He stood pensive and confused, afraid to go forward lest he should go wrong, yet conscious that the time of loitering was now past. While he was thus tortured with uncertainty, the sky was overspread with clouds, the day vanished from before him, and a sudden tempest ...

— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... stopped short, gave one agonizing glance toward his barracks only a few feet away, realized that it was nearly time for bed call and that he could not possibly make it if he went back, then whirled about and started out on a wild run like a madman over the ground he had just traveled. He was not conscious of carrying on a train of thought as he ran, his only idea was to get to the Y.M.C.A. hut before the man had left with the letter. Never should his childhood's enemy have that letter ...

— The Search • Grace Livingston Hill

... a feeling that things were not going well with the world, a feeling he tried in vain to dispel by various distractions. Perhaps some subtler subconscious analysis of the situation was working out probabilities that his conscious self would not face. And when presently he bicycled off to Mrs. Harrowdean for flattery, amusement, and comfort generally, he found her by no means the exalting confirmation of everything he wished to believe about himself and the universe, that had been her delightful role in the early ...

— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... well as the general tenor of Grecian legend, identifies with Homer himself. The author of that hymn, be he who he may, could never have described a blind man as attaining the utmost perfection in his art, if he had been conscious that the memory of the bard was only maintained by constant reference to the manuscript ...

— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

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