consciousness

English

Etymology

conscious +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnʃəsnəs/

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Noun

consciousness (countable and uncountable, plural consciousnesses)

1. The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.

   • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.

Synonyms

• witfulness

Derived terms

• coconsciousness
• consciousness-raising
• cyberconsciousness
• ecoconsciousness
• exoconsciousness
• false consciousness
• higher consciousness
• hyperconsciousness
• neuroconsciousness
• nonconsciousness
• preconsciousness
• raise someone's consciousness
• self-consciousness
• selfconsciousness
• semiconsciousness
• stream of consciousness
• subconsciousness
• superconsciousness
• teleconsciousness
• unconsciousness

 

Related terms

• conscious
• conscience

Translations

awareness

• Ainu: エコンラム (ekonramu)
• Armenian: գիտակցություն (hy) (gitakcʿutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: съзнание (bg) n (sǎznanie), съзнателност (bg) f (sǎznatelnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 意識 (zh), 意识 (zh) (yìshí)

• Czech: vědomí (cs) n, uvědomění n
• Danish: bevidsthed
• Dutch: bewustzijn (nl) n
• Estonian: teadvus
• Finnish: tajunta (fi), tietoisuus (fi), taju (fi)
• French: conscience (fr) f
• Galician: consciencia (gl) f
• Georgian: ცნობიერება (cnobiereba)
• German: Bewusstsein (de) n, Verständnis (de) n, Gewahrsein n, Gewahrwerden n, Erkenntnis (de) f, Bewusstheit f, Besinnung (de) f, Wahrnehmung (de) f, Gefühl (de) n
• Greek: συνείδηση (el) f (syneídisi)
• Hebrew: מודעות‎ (he) f (muda'ut)
• Hungarian: tudatosság (hu), tudat (hu), eszmélet (hu)
• Irish: comhfhios m
• Italian: conoscenza (it) f, coscienza (it) f

• Japanese: 意識 (ja) (いしき, ishiki), 人心地 (ひとごこち, hitogokochi)
• Korean: 의식 (ko) (uisik) (意識), 자각 (ko) (jagak) (自覺)
• Latvian: samaņa f, apziņa f
• Lithuanian: sąmonė (lt) f
• Manx: co-yssaght f
• Norwegian: bevissthet (no) m or f
• Persian: خودآگاهی‎ (fa) (xud-âgâhi), آگاهی‎ (fa) (âgâhi)
• Polish: przytomność (pl) f, świadomość (pl) f
• Portuguese: consciência (pt) f
• Romanian: conștiință (ro) f
• Russian: созна́ние (ru) n (soznánije)
• Slovak: vedomie n
• Southern Altai: санаа (sanaa)
• Spanish: conciencia (es)
• Swedish: medvetande (sv) n
• Tagalog: malay
• Telugu: చేతనము (te) (cētanamu)
• Thai: สติ (th) (sà-dtì)
• Turkish: bilinç (tr), şuur (tr)
• Ukrainian: свідомість (uk) (svidomistʹ)

See also

• being-for-itself