Negative Word Associations and dictionary.reference.com - Conscious

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con·scious
–adjective
1.aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
2.fully aware of or sensitive to something (often followed by of ): conscious of one's own faults; He wasn't conscious of the gossip about his past.
3.having the mental faculties fully active: He was conscious during the operation.
4.known to oneself; felt: conscious guilt.
5.aware of what one is doing: a conscious liar.
6.aware of oneself; self-conscious.
7.deliberate; intentional: a conscious insult; a conscious effort.
8.acutely aware of or concerned about: money-conscious; a diet-conscious society.
9.Obsolete . inwardly sensible of wrongdoing.  (Obsolete!?! )


compared to thefreedictionary.com
con·scious  

adj.

1.a. Having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. See Synonyms at aware.

b. Mentally perceptive or alert; awake: The patient remained fully conscious after the local anesthetic was administered.

2. Capable of thought, will, or perception: the development of conscious life on the planet.

3. Subjectively known or felt: conscious remorse.

4. Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate: a conscious insult; made a conscious effort to speak more clearly.

5. Inwardly attentive or sensible; mindful: was increasingly conscious of being watched.

6. Especially aware of or preoccupied with. Often used in combination: a cost-conscious approach to further development; a health-conscious diet.

n.

In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant; consciousness.

 

conscious 

adj

1.a.  alert and awake; not sleeping or comatose

b.  aware of one's surroundings, one's own thoughts and motivations, etc.

2.a.  aware of and giving value or emphasis to a particular fact or phenomenon I am conscious of your great kindness to me

b.  (in combination) clothes-conscious

3. done with full awareness; deliberate a conscious effort conscious rudeness

4. (Psychology)

a.  denoting or relating to a part of the human mind that is aware of a person's self, environment, and mental activity and that to a certain extent determines his choices of action

b.  (as noun) the conscious is only a small part of the mind Compare unconscious

[from Latin conscius sharing knowledge, from com- with + scīre to know]

consciously  adv

consciousness  n

 

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