consciousness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=scious=ness
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

consciousness, n. 

•  The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or “ego” of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine."  [1913 Webster]
•  Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.  [1913 Webster]

  "Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation."  [1913 Webster]

  "And, when the steam
  Which overflowed the soul had passed away,
  A consciousness remained that it had left.
  . . . images and precious thoughts
  That shall not die, and can not be destroyed."  [1913 Webster]

  "The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness."  [1913 Webster]
•  Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.  [1913 Webster]

  "An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

consciousness, n.
1 the state of being conscious (lost consciousness during the fight).
2 a awareness, perception (had no consciousness of being ridiculed). b (in comb.) awareness of (class-consciousness).
3 the totality of a person's thoughts and feelings, or of a class of these (moral consciousness).

Idiom

consciousness-raising the activity of increasing esp. social or political sensitivity or awareness.

THESAURUS

consciousness

advertence, advertency, alertness, all-night vigil, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, awareness, brain, care, carefulness, cognition, cognizance, concentration, concern, consideration, diligence, ear, earnestness, experience, faculties, feeling, head, heed, heedfulness, insight, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, intellect, intellectual gifts, intellectuals, intelligence, intentiveness, intentness, lidless vigil, mentality, mindfulness, noesis, note, notice, observance, observation, parts, percept, perception, realization, recognition, regard, regardfulness, remark, respect, response, response to stimuli, restlessness, sensation, sense, sense impression, sense perception, senses, sensibility, sensory experience, sentience, sleeplessness, thought, tossing and turning, vigil, wake, wakefulness, wise man, wits

ROGET THESAURUS

consciousness

Physical Sensibility

N physical sensibility, sensibility, sensitiveness, physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics, moral sensibility, sensation, impression, consciousness, external senses, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, aesthetic, perceptive, sentient, conscious, acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned, to the quick, the touch'd needle trembles to the pole.

Intellect

N intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, Vernunft, Verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, CPU, arithmetic and logical unit, ALU, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist, intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason, in petto, ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, my mind is my kingdom, stern men with empires in their brains, the mind, the music breathing from her face, thou living ray of intellectual Fire.

Knowledge

N knowledge, cognizance, cognition, cognoscence, acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity, comprehension, apprehension, recognition, appreciation, intuition, conscience, consciousness, perception, precognition, acroamatics, light, enlightenment, glimpse, inkling, glimmer, glimmering, dawn, scent, suspicion, impression, discovery, system of knowledge, body of knowledge, science, philosophy, pansophy, acroama, theory, aetiology, etiology, circle of the sciences, pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, school, tree of knowledge, republic of letters, erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters, literature, book madness, book learning, bookishness, bibliomania, bibliolatry, information, general information, store of knowledge, education, culture, menticulture, attainments, acquirements, acquisitions, accomplishments, proficiency, practical knowledge, liberal education, dilettantism, rudiments, deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning, omniscience, pantology, march of intellect, progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning, schoolmaster abroad, scholar, knowing, cognitive, acroamatic, aware of, cognizant of, conscious of, acquainted with, made acquainted with, privy to, no stranger to, au fait with, au courant, in the secret, up to, alive to, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, let into, apprized of, informed of, undeceived, proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in, conversant with, familiar with, erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated, well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated, enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned, accomplished, omniscient, self-taught, known, ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted, proverbial, familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy, hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace, cognoscible, cognizable, to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge, one's eyes being opened, ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner, to know all is to pardon all, empta dolore docet experientia, gnothi seauton, half our knowledge we must snatch not take, Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher, years teach more than books, knowledge comes but wisdom lingers, knowledge is power, les affaires font les hommes, nec scire fas est omnia, the amassed thought and experience of innumerable, was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.