consciência
See also: consciencia and consciència
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cōnscientia, from con- (“with”) + scientia (“knowledge”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
consciência f (plural consciências)
- conscience, consciousness (moral sense)
- immediate knowledge of one's own psychic activity
- ability to know oneself intuitively
- spontaneous and more or less vague knowledge; impression
- (psychology) part of psychic activity of which the subject has intuitive knowledge (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- (philosophy) state in which the subject knows himself as such, and distinguishes himself from the objects that surround him (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- ability to make value judgments about one's own actions (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- honesty; righteousness
- neatness; scruple