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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

... as before, but in the midst of his suspense he was conscious of flashes that resembled joy. He saw a spot of blue in his clouded sky. His promise given back to him, eight thousand dollars to receive from the man in the window, he might look up once more. He took Bernhard's hand, ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... solid around them, but that instead of harming them would simply put the seal of safety on their abode. Nor were they dead things to be resurrected by the Gabriel horn of spring. When I poked them they wriggled with quite surprising vigor, showing that they were very much alive and keenly conscious. They were not even asleep, else their jump at a touch would not have been ...

— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

... herself on the plea of letters to write. She had not begun her letter-writing yet, however, but was wandering about the house in a purposeless way—now standing still for a quarter of an hour at a time, looking out of a window, without being in the least degree conscious of the landscape she was looking at, and then pacing slowly up and down the long picture gallery with a sense of relief in ...

— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon

... the boat "City of Boston," escorted thither by my car acquaintance, and deposited in the cabin. Trying to look as if the greater portion of my life had been passed on board boats, but painfully conscious that I don't know the first thing; so sit bolt upright, and stare about me till I hear one lady say to another—"We must secure our berths at once;" whereupon I dart at one, and, while leisurely taking off my cloak, wait to discover what the second move may be. Several ...

— Hospital Sketches • Louisa May Alcott

... little children pull! Like all weak things, over the strong Ye do not know your power for wrong, And much abuse your feebleness. Daisies, that little children pull, As ye are weak, be merciful! O hide your eyes! they are to me Beautiful insupportably. Or be but conscious ye are fair, And I your loveliness could bear, But, being fair so without art, Ye vex the silted memories ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

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