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Consciousness   /kˈɑnʃəsnəs/   Listen
Consciousness

noun
1.
An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation.
2.
Having knowledge of.  Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, knowingness.  "His sudden consciousness of the problem he faced" , "Their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"



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"Consciousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... mistress's charms, no painter ever delighted to deck his model, more than Olive loved to adorn and to admire the still exquisite beauty of her mother. It stood to her in the place of all attractions in herself—in fact, she rarely thought about herself at all. The consciousness of her personal defect had worn off through habit, and her almost total seclusion from strangers prevented its being painfully forced on ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... Moreover, the definition is not ultimate, since the points of community themselves admit of, and require, further analysis; and Mr. Bain does analyze them into resemblances in the sensations, or other states of consciousness ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... the discovery that by breathing sulphuric ether a person can become insensible to pain and then recover consciousness. The glory of the discovery has been claimed for Dr. Morton and Dr. Jackson, who used it in 1846. Laughing gas (nitrous oxide) was used as an ansesthetic before this time ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... little, but he was drawn to the girl, who had not the self-consciousness of Tommy and Elspeth in his presence, and sometimes he slipped a penny into her hand. The pennies were not spent, they were hoarded for the fair, or Muckle Friday, or Muckley, great day of the year in Thrums. If you would know ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... have its fangs fixed in my flesh; but still I could not move. Then I heard a low whimper, followed by a bark. I started up, and opening my eyes, discovered my faithful dog Caesar, who was endeavouring to arouse me to consciousness. I returned his caresses as he fawned on me, finding me not dead as he supposed. It was still dark; but I no longer dreaded having to wander about by myself; he would prove my guide and protector. He seemed by his actions to indicate that he wanted ...
— In the Wilds of Florida - A Tale of Warfare and Hunting • W.H.G. Kingston


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