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Definition: Conscious |
ConsciousAdjective1. Intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy". 2. Knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed". 3. Showing realization or recognition or something; followed by "of"; "few voters seem conscious (or aware) of the issue's importance"; "conscious of having succeeded"; "the careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load"- Thomas Hardy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conscious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Etymology: Conscious \Con"scious\, adjective. [Latin expression conscius; con- scire to know. See Conscience.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Conscious, Aware. "He was aware of the enemy's designs." "Conscious of his fate, he boldly approached the furious beast." Conscious relates to what is within our own mind; aware to what is without. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term consciousness has several different meanings.
In colloquial language, it denotes being awake and responsive to one's environment; what some call reactivity. This might contrast to being asleep or being in a coma.
Philosophers distinguish between phenomenal consciousness and psychological consciousness.
Phenomenal consciousness
There is, on the view of very many philosophers, one mental function that accompanies some, or perhaps all, mental events, namely, consciousness. In a philosophical context, the word "consciousness" means something like awareness, or the fact that the mind is as it were directed at something or other. (That sounds more like a definition of that philosophical term "intentionality" often laymanified as "aboutness".) So when we perceive, we are conscious of what we perceive; when we introspect, we are conscious of our thoughts; when we remember, we are conscious of something that happened in the past, or of some piece of information that we learned; and so on.
In this philosophical sense of the word "conscious", we are conscious even when we are dreaming; we are conscious of what's happening in the dream. But sleep researchers believe there is a sleep stage that happens, called "deep sleep", in which apparently we are not conscious of anything in any sense. No mental processes that involve consciousness in an ordinary or in a philosophical sense are going on. So deep dreamless sleep is an instance in which one is alive and one's brain is functioning, but there are no mental events occurring in which there is any element of consciousness.
Modern discoveries on consciousness are based on study of consciousness states and the deficits caused by lesions, stroke, injury, or surgery that disrupt the normal functioning of our senses and cognitions. These discoveries suggest that the mind is a complex structure of various localized functions held together by a unitary awareness.
There has been some debate about the following question: Must one be conscious, in the philosophical sense, whenever a mental event occurs? For example, is it possible to have a pain that one does not feel? Some people think not; they think that in order for something to be a pain, one has to feel it or be aware of it. Similarly, if anything is a thought, then one has to be aware of that of which one is thinking (indeed, that seems nearly a tautology); if there is no consciousness, no awareness, of anything at all, then one is not thinking. Philosophers ask: Do mental events necessarily involve consciousness?
Suppose we answer "No." Then of course what we'd be saying is that there are some mental events that do not include an element of consciousness. These events are going on even though we aren't aware of them. In other words, part of the mind is unconscious. Cognitive scientists believe that many cognitive processes are unconscious in this manner; we are aware of only some of the stuff that's going on in our minds. Some may even view consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, somehow arising from a hierarchy of unconscious processes. These are fairly recent views, made popular only after Freud.
The complementarity of consciousness has parallels with the nature of quantum theory. This has prompted quantum models of consciousness.
Psychological consciousness
Psychological consciousness refers to a closely interrelated set of features. Julian Jaynes lists these features as:
1. spatialization - having an internal mental 'space' in which hypothetical events can 'happen'. It is impossible to think of any events occurring in time without spatializing them, usually on a timeline running from left to right. People who are not conscious (eg, in a hypnotic state) are incapable of thinking about time or putting things in a time-ordered sequence.
2. analog I - being able to see 'in' one's spatialized mind what one would 'see' if one were in a certain situation. For example, if a person comes to a fork while walking through a forest, they can 'see' 'in' their mind what they would through their eyes if they took either of the paths. It's based on this information that they can decide to take one path (perhaps more scenic) over the other.
3. analog Me - the 'I' is the subject performing actions, through whose eyes we 'see'. The 'Me' is an object 'seen' in its entirety. The 'I' is the first-person view in computer games while the 'Me' is the third-person view, behind the main character. One can often 'see' oneself performing actions 'in one's mind' as if one were 'outside' of one's own body.
4. excerption - the taking of a small aspect of something to stand for that whole thing. No one thinks of their city by imagining every house, every streetcorner and every sewer. One takes something, perhaps the skyline or city hall, and lets it stand for the whole thing. The same occurs for everything. Recalling one excerption after another by a chain of associations is what constitutes 'reminiscence'.
5. conciliation - something similar to assimilation of knowledge to fit a schema but done 'in' a conscious mind.
6. narratization - the constant unnoticed activity of thinking of one's life in terms of stories, in which one is the star character.
See also:
- altered state of consciousness
- unconscious mind
- Cognitive science
- Consciousness-only
- Psychology
- Reality
- Society of Mind theory
- Neural Darwinism theory
- Gerald Edelman
- John Searle
- Vedic science
- Vedanta
- Yogacara
- Quantum mind
- Daniel Dennett and his book Consciousness Explained
Consciousness is generally regarded as comprising abilities such as self-awareness and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. A thing that is conscious uses the term "I" to refer to itself. So far, the only beings believed to be conscious are human beings.
Human consciousness is generally regarded by most people as an self-evident directly perceived entity. However, consiciousness has been a great problem for scientists and philosophers.
In particular, philosophers have asked "how do we know we are conscious?" and "how do we know other people are conscious?". It turns out that these are difficult questions, both to formulate accurately, and to answer.
One question is to what extent other primates, whales and dolphins, or grey parrots have consciousness. These issues are of great interest and controversy not only to scientists, but also to animal rights lawyers.
In the past the origin of consciousness was looked for in a soul separate of the body. This idea developed in many cultures. Some of these conceptions were first developed in ancient Greece, and later adapted to Christian ideas.
Today human consciousness is understood by many scientists as a function of the brain. This realization is based on the observation the fact that consciousness can be affected through chemical substances working in the brain and that often mental disorders cause changes in consciousness. Human behavior is affected by conscious and unconscious processes (assumed to be displaced consciousness contents and instincts), whereby the dividing line is to be drawn with difficulty.
Experimental psychology and developmental psychology, which are concerned with the learning behavior of infants (e.g. Elizabeth Spelke, Stephen Pinker), point to an early developing consciousness.
Usually most consciousness awareness is lost during sleep. However, some people can activate this awareness by using lucid dreaming techniques.
Consciousness and language
Because of the fact that humans can express themselves by language, unlike all other animals, it is tempting to equate language abilities and consciousness. There are however speechless humans (infants, Kaspar Hauser, accident victims), to who consciousness is attributed despite language lost or not yet acquired. Also consciousness does not change by the acquisition of a new language. Consciousness is therefore one of the conditions for the language acquisition; missing language ability is however no reference to missing consciousness.
Here a distinction must be made between language abilities and language authority: language authority is for example present with mute ones quite (see bearing language). Language is the substantial means of humans to give expression to the experience of consciousness. Other forms are artistic, such as music, dance, painting and sculpture.
Consciousness and chemistry
Consciousness-changing chemicals human consciousness can be affected by medicines. Sleeping drugs (e.g. Midazolam = Dormicum) are used, in order to bring the brain from the awake condition (conscious) to the sleep (unconscious). Wake-up drugs (e.g. Anexate) reverse this process. Many other drugs (such as heroin, cocaine, LSD, MDMA) have a consciousness-changing effect.
It is generally believed that general anaesthetics work by suppressing consciouness.
Modern brain research assumes that consciousness expires at brain death.
Consciousness and memory
Consciousness is closely connected with the ability of memory, since even after temporary consciousness loss the identity of the individual remains.
Further reading
- How the Mind Works, Stephen Pinker.
- The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots, Irene M. Pepperberg, 1999.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Consciousness."
Synonyms: ConsciousSynonyms: conscious(p) (adj), witting (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unconscious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background; (modesty); be conscious of disgrace; (humility); look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away. |
Humility | Lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. |
Intellect | Verb: note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate; (think); fancy; (imagine). |
Knowledge | Aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au -fait, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived. |
Physical Sensibility | Adjective: sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious. (aware). |
Repute | Verb: be conscious of glory; be proud of; (pride); exult; (boast); be vain of; (vanity). |
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Crosswords: Conscious |
| English words defined with "conscious": affect, aim, alert, arouse, automatic, automatism, awake, awaken ♦ biofeedback ♦ Conscient, Cosmothetic idealists ♦ deliberate, design ♦ ego ♦ inhibition, intent, intention, intentional, involuntary, involuntary muscle ♦ knowing ♦ mindless ♦ oblivious ♦ perceive, purpose ♦ reflex, reflexive, repression, resistance, rouse ♦ self-conscious, self-deprecating, Selfhood, semiconscious, sense, smooth muscle, stream of consciousness, studied, subliminal, suppression ♦ The common run, The run, think, throwaway ♦ unconscious, unmindful ♦ volition ♦ wake, wake up, wakefulness, waken, wilful, will, willful, witting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conscious": Autonomic Neuropathy ♦ Bevil ♦ Conscious Water ♦ Female ♦ Heart in his Mouth ♦ Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, MUSIC THERAPIST ♦ sympathy effect. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "conscious": Conscience. (references) |
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Screenplays | If it's a concussion, you have to keep her conscious, okay (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) Except you're conscious, so we don't know what it means (The Return of the Living Dead; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Rudy Ricci) If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire (Nineteen Eighty-Four; writing credit: Jonathan Gems; George Orwell) I became conscious that a steady torrent of obscenities and swearing of all kinds was pouring out of me as I screamed (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery, and I had been a part of that (Waking Life; writing credit: Richard Linklater) | |
Lyrics | NEVER EVER HAD MY CONSCIOUS TO FIGHT (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) YOU GOT MY CONSCIOUS ASKING QUESTIONS (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) | |
Movie/TV Titles | His Conscious Conscience (1916) | |
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 | Simultaneous-like he became conscious of the fact that the footlight favorites were no longer worthy of him. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I feared that her real motive for coming conscious or unconscious, was to see Julian again. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. |
Duc de La Rochefoucauld | The hunger for applause is the source of all conscious literature and heroism. |
Fyodor Dostoevski | To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness. |
Henry David Thoreau | If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. |
Herbert Spencer | The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. |
Karl Marx | Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. |
Plutarch | Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. |
Thomas Carlyle | The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. |
| Of all acts is not repentance most divine? The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In the formation of their plans they are conscious of caring chiefly for the interests of the working class, as being the most suffering class. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Surely we should work with conscious purpose for a grand pacification of Europe, within the structure of the United Nations and in accordance with its Charter. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The poor old woman had done all this without being conscious of it. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The men licked their lips, suddenly conscious of their thirst |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery |
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Health | Involved in conscious thought and language. (references) | |
The person remains conscious throughout the episode. (references) | ||
Whyte J, Laborde A, DiPasquale MC. Assessment and treatment of the vegetative and minimally conscious patient. (references) | ||
Business | Argentine consumers are highly conscious of brand names. (references) | |
Additionally, Argentine consumers are generally very brand conscious. (references) | ||
This group appears to be more conscious of their image and appearance. (references) | ||
Economic History | Costa Rica | Costa Ricans are very price conscious and savvy shoppers. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Azeri shoppers are price-sensitive but extremely brand conscious. (references) | |
Ghana | Ghanaians tend to be very price conscious with respect to most purchases. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | However, human rights advocates contend that number is closer to 500. Human rights advocates blamed a breakdown in the prison bureaucracy, noting there was no apparent conscious effort to deny prisoners a right to trial. (references) |
Trade | Switzerland | Leading marketing specialists have found ISO 14001 to be an effective marketing tool, particularly in environmentally conscious and sensitive markets like Switzerland, Germany or the Scandinavian countries. (references) |
Travel | Thailand | The Thai cultural values of patience, respect for status (age, authority, etc.) and not losing face, are significant factors in business relationships as well . Thais feel great pride for their country and have deep respect for tradition . Sometimes, however, observance of traditional formalities may seem inconsistent to the tolerant, relaxed nature of living in Thailand . This can be confusing or frustrating to Westerners who are more informal and more time conscious. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | As the expression of their good opinion of my conduct in the public service, I derive from it a gratification which those who are conscious of having done all that they could to merit it can alone feel. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Less possessed of your confidence in advance than any of my predecessors, I am deeply conscious of the prospect that I shall stand more and oftener in need of your indulgence. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | I bring to it a conscious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | But I believe our farmers are as deeply conscious as any group in the land of the havoc which inflation can create. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Rather this change expresses a purpose of strengthening our dedication and devotion to the precepts of our founding documents, a conscious renewal of faith in our country and in the watchfulness of a Divine Providence. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | If the level of infiltration or our casualties increase while we are trying to scale down the fighting, it will be the result of a conscious decision by the enemy. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have become increasingly conscious of our growing interests in a third area, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf area. |
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| "Conscious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.54% of the time. "Conscious" is used about 3,063 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.54% | 3,049 | 3,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,063 | N/A |
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Expressions using "conscious": be conscious ♦ be conscious of ♦ be conscious of disgrace ♦ be conscious of glory ♦ be conscious of smth. ♦ class conscious ♦ conscious decision to work with biologial agents ♦ conscious error ♦ Conscious Sedation ♦ partly conscious ♦ self conscious ♦ socially conscious. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "conscious": budget-conscious, cost-conscious, energy-conscious, environmentally-conscious, figure-conscious, half-conscious, health-conscious, image-conscious, litigation-conscious, money-conscious, non-conscious, over-conscious, politically-conscious, pre-conscious, price-conscious, quality-conscious, safety-conscious, security-conscious, semi-conscious, status-conscious, style-conscious, sub-conscious, unself-conscious, weight-conscious. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conscious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | besef (awareness, be aware of, be conscious of, consciousness, notion, realise, realization, realize, sense, understand). (various references) | |
Albanian | me ndërgjegje (meaningly), me dashje (by design, consciously, fain, knowingly, on purpose, prepense, purposefully, purposely, voluntary, wittingly), i vetëdijshëm (aware, conscientious, opinionated, overweening, reliant). (various references) | |
Arabic | مدرك (appreciator, apprehensive, aware, discerning, intelligent, knowing, perceptible, perceptive, percipient, rational, reasonable), واع (aware, circumspect, mindful, sentient, wise), شعوري (sensory, sentimental), شاعر (bard, muse, poet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съзнателен (advised, deliberate, intentional, knowing, premeditated, scrupulous, sentient, voluntary), в съзнание (sensible), обмислен (advised, calculated, cold blooded, considered, deliberate, deliberative, measured, premeditated, studious, thought-out, voluntary), преднамерен (aforethought, deliberate, intentional, loaded, premeditated, prepense, purposive, studied, studious, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自覺 (aware), 神志清楚, 有意識 , 察覺 (aware). (various references) | |
Czech | vìdomý (calculated, deliberate), sebevìdomý (conceited, presumptuous, self confident), úmyslný (advised, calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wanton, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Danish | co-bevisthed (co-conscious), et Europa,trofast over for deres venskaber med andre stater,overbevist om den rolle,der tilkommer det med hensyn til at fremme den internationale afspaending og tilnaermelsen mellem alle folk (conscious of the role it has to play in promoting the relaxation of international tension and the rapprochement among all peoples, true to its friendly relations with outside countries), erkendt fejl (conscious error), bevidsthedstilstand (clarity of consciousness, conscious attitude), bevidst beslutning om arbejde med biologiske agenser (conscious decision to work with biologial agents), betydningsindhold (emotive or conscious contents, importance of imaginative). (various references) | |
Dutch | welbewust (aware), bewust (aware, concerned, in question). (various references) | |
Esperanto | konscia (aware). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vera greiður um (be aware of, be conscious of, realize). (various references) | |
Farsi | ملتفت (Attentive, Aware), هوشیار (Alert, Astute, Cautious, Observant, Sober, Vigilant), وارد (Comer, Hep, Relevant), اگاه (Aware, Cognizant, Conversant, Hep), بهوش (Sober), باخبر (Aware, Cognizant). (various references) | |
Finnish | tietoinen. (various references) | |
French | conscient. (various references) | |
German | bewusst (aware, consciously, convinced, deliberate, deliberately, intentional, intentionally, knowingly, purposely, self-aware, sensible, studious, studiously), bei bewusstsein. (various references) | |
Greek | όποιοσ έχει επίγνωση, συνειδώσ, συνειδητόσ (qualm), συναισθανόμενοσ, γνωρίζων (aware, knowing, knowingly), που έχει τις αισθήσεις, ενσυνείδητοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מו"ע (aware, sensible, wise), תו"עתי (conscientious), "כרתי, מצא ב"כר". (various references) | |
Hungarian | öntudatos (assertive, self conscious, self-conscious), tudatos (self conscious, self-conscious). (various references) | |
Icelandic | gera sig grein fyrir (be aware of, be conscious of, realize). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sadar (mindful). (various references) | |
Italian | cosciente (aware). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コロンブスの卵 (Columbus Day, Columbus' egg, computer graphics, conc., concentrated, concert, concert hall, concert master, concertante, concise, conclave, concord, Concorde, concourse, concrete, concrete block, concrete jungle, concrete mixer, concrete pile, concurrent, conga, conglomerate, conglomerate merchant, Congo, congratulations, congress, congress gaiters, conservation, conservative, conservator, conservatory, consultant, consultant engineer, consulting, consulting sales, consumer, Consumer Interpole, consumering, consumerism, consumers' relation, consumers' research, consumption, contest, CR). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コンシャス . (various references) | |
Korean | 의식이 있". (various references) | |
Norwegian | bevisst. (various references) | |
Papiamen | konsiente (aware). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onsciouscay.(various references) | |
Polish | mieć świadomość (be aware of, be conscious of, realize). (various references) | |
Portuguese | consciente (aware, percipient, sensible), consciência psicológica (consciousness), conhecimento (acquaintance, attainment, awareness, background, cognition, cognizance, command, consciousness, conversance, familiarity, friend, idea, information, insight, instruction, intelligence, know, knowing, knowledge, learning, light, lore, manifest, perception, privity, scholarship, science), cônscio (sensible), intencional (calculated, deliberate, designed, intended, intentional, pointed, prepense, purposeful, purposive, studied, wanton, wilful, willful), deliberado (advised, calculated, deliberate, designed, prepense, studied, wanton). (various references) | |
Romanian | conştient (aware, consciously, knowingly, open, sensible, wittingly), care are conştiinţã. (various references) | |
Russian | сознательный (class conscious, responsible, voluntary). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svestan (awake, aware, cognizant, hip, mindful, ware). (various references) | |
Spanish | consciente (alive, aware). (various references) | |
Swedish | medveten (aware, knowing, mindful, sensible). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), kastiyle, kasti (deliberate, intended, intentional, wilful, willful), inançlı (assured, believer, believing, confident, reliant, religious), farkında (alive, aware, sensible), bilinciyle, bilinçli, bílínçlí (aware). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свідомий, розсудливий (advisable, canny, healthy, judicial, judicious, politic, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sober, sober minded, wholesome, wise), що усвідомлю", що відчува", притомний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có ý thức (consciously, scienter, wittingly), thấy rõ (awaken), tỉnh táo (alert, flew, fly, wakeful), tỉnh (place), biết rõ. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymwybodol (aware). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conscia, conscium, conscius. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai nun adelfoi oida oti kata agnoian epraxate wsper kai oi arconteV umwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et nunc fratres scio quia per ignorantiam fecistis sicut et principes vestri |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And now, britheren, Y woot that bi vnwityng ye diden, as also youre princis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And now brethre I wote well that thorow ignorauce ye did it as dyd also youre heddes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 17 |
| Albanian | Por tani, o vëllezër, unë e di që e keni bërë nga padija, ashtu siç kanë bërë edhe krerët tuaj. |
| Cebuano | "Ug karon, mga igsoon, ako nasayud nga kadto inyong gibuhat tungod kay kamo wala man mahibalo, maingon sa pagbuhat usab sa inyong mga punoan. |
| Croatian | "I sada, braæo, znam da ste ono uradili iz neznanja kao i glavari vaši. |
| Danish | Og nu, Brødre! jeg ved, at I handlede i Uvidenhed, ligesom også eders Rådsherrer. |
| Dutch | En nu, broeders, ik weet, dat gij het door onwetendheid gedaan hebt, gelijk als ook uw oversten. |
| Finnish | Ja nyt, veljet, minä tiedän, että te olette tietämättömyydestä sen tehneet, te niinkuin teidän hallitusmiehennekin. |
| French | Et maintenant, frères, je sais que vous avez agi par ignorance, ainsi que vos chefs. |
| German | Nun, liebe Brüder, ich weiß, daß ihr's durch Unwissenheit getan habt wie auch eure Obersten. |
| Haitian Creole | Enben, koulye a, frè m' yo, mwen rekonèt se konnen nou pa t' konnen, nou menm ansanm ak tout chèf nou yo, kifè nou te aji konsa avèk Jezi. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Saudara-saudara! Sekarang saya tahu bahwa apa yang kalian dan pemimpin-pemimpinmu lakukan terhadap Yesus, itu kalian lakukan karena kalian tidak tahu apa yang kalian sedang lakukan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan sekarang, hai Saudara-saudara, aku ketahui kamu melakukan hal itu dengan jahilmu sama seperti penghulumu juga. |
| Italian | Ora, fratelli, io so che voi avete agito per ignoranza, così come i vostri capi; |
| Korean | 형 " 아 너 희 가 알 지 못 하 여 서 그 리 하 였 으 며 너 희 관 원 " 도 그 리 한 줄 아 노 라 |
| Latvian | Bet tagad brâïi, es zinu, ka jûs tâpat kâ jûsu priekðnieki nezinâðanas dçï to padarîjât. |
| Maori | Na, e oku teina, e mahara ana ahau na te kuware tena mahi a koutou, pera i ta o koutou rangatira. |
| Norwegian | Og nu, brødre! jeg vet at I gjorde det i uvitenhet, likesom eders rådsherrer; |
| Portuguese | Agora, irmãos, eu sei que o fizestes por ignorância, como também as vossas autoridades. |
| Rumanian | Wi acum, frayilor, wtiu cq din newtiinyq ayi fqcut awa, ca wi mai marii vowtri. |
| Russian | ч ТПЮЕН С ЪОБА, 'ТБФЙС, ЮФП ЧЩ, ЛБЛ Й ОБЮБМШОЙЛЙ ЧБЫЙ, У"ЕМБМЙ ЬФП П ОЕЧЕ"ЕОЙА; |
| Shuar | `Wats, yatsurtiram, wi nékajai. Atumsha Atumí uuntrijiai Jesusan Túramarmena nu nékatsuk Túramarme. |
| Spanish | Ahora bien, hermanos, sé que por ignorancia lo hicisteis, como también vuestros gobernantes. |
| Swahili | "Sasa ndugu zangu, nafahamu kwamba ninyi na wakuu wenu mlitenda hayo kwa sababu ya kutojua kwenu. |
| Swedish | Nu vet jag väl, mina bröder, att I såväl som edra rådsherrar haven gjort detta, därför att I icke vissten bättre. |
| Uma | "Ompi' -ompi', koi' moto-mi hante pangkeni-ta to mpopatehi Yesus-e. Aga ku'inca moto, napa to nibabehi tetu, nibabehi ngkai ka'uma-na-hawo ni'incai kalaua-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conscious": consciouses, consciously, consciousness, consciousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "conscious": hyperconscious, nonconscious, overconscious, preconscious, semiconscious, subconscious, unconscious. (additional references) | |
Words containing "conscious": hyperconsciousness, hyperconsciousnesses, preconsciouses, preconsciously, semiconsciousness, semiconsciousnesses, subconsciouses, subconsciously, subconsciousness, subconsciousnesses, unconsciouses, unconsciously, unconsciousness, unconsciousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Conscious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cencius, concauous, concious, concsious, conscieous, conscinous, conscio, conscions, consciopus, conscioun, consciouns, consciouse, consciuous, conscius, conscous, consicous, consious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conscious" (pronounced kÄ"nshus) |
| 6 | k Ä" n sh u s | subconscious, unconscious. |
| 4 | -n sh u s | conscientious, contentious, pretentious, tendentious, unpretentious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, capacious, capricious, cautious, delicious, efficacious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, fallacious, ferocious, fictitious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, loquacious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, predaceous, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, salacious, sebaceous, seditious, semiprecious, spacious, specious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tenacious, vexatious, vicious, vivacious, voracious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-n-o-o-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: concuss, cousins. | |
-3 letters: ciscos, conics, cousin, scions, sonics. | |
-4 letters: cions, cisco, cocos, coins, conic, conus, coons, cusso, icons, incus, nisus, scion, sinus, sonic, uncos. | |
-5 letters: cion, coco, coin, coni, cons, coon, coos, coss, cuss, icon, ions, nous, onus, sics, sins, sons, soon, sous, suns, unci, unco. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-n-o-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: concussion, occlusions. | |
+2 letters: conclusions, concussions, consciouses, consciously, conspicuous, unconscious. | |
+3 letters: consecutions, coruscations, nonconscious, preconscious, subconscious. | |
+4 letters: conscientious, consciousness, conspicuously, constructions, inconspicuous, malocclusions, overconscious, semiconscious, unconsciouses, unconsciously. | |
+5 letters: accustomations, hyperconscious, nonconclusions, pococurantisms, precociousness, preconsciouses, preconsciously, semiconductors, subcollections, subconsciouses, subconsciously. | |
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