Consciousness
['kɒnʃəsnɪs] or ['kɑnʃəsnəs]
Definition
(noun.) an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; 'he lost consciousness'.
Inputed by Brice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.
(n.) Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.
(n.) Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.
Typist: Stanley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sense, sensation, intelligence, perception
ANT:Insensibility, unconsciousness
Typed by Anton
Examples
- But Jane did not once lose consciousness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hadn't they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, ANYTHING, rather than this self-consciousness, this incapacity to be spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The measure of our self-consciousness will more or less determine whether we are to be the victims or the masters of change. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Even this imperfect consciousness faded away at last, and he dreamed a long, troubled dream. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- When D'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A shaped shelter of boughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They were two solitary sufferers, or connected only by Fanny's consciousness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I must feelI must be wretchedand they are welcome to enjoy the consciousness of it that can. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Riches became mine, wealth poured in upon me, and I rioted in pleasures enhanced a thousandfold to me by the consciousness of my well-kept secret. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Something which is called mind or consciousness is severed from the physical organs of activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Bringing these connections or implications to consciousness enhances the meaning of the experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We have had the vague consciousness of assisting at a great development whose evidences to-day on every hand attest its magnitude. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But Gudrun lay wide awake, destroyed into perfect consciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If I am to fight our cause with the Count, strong in the consciousness of Laura's safety, I must fight it for my Wife. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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