Consciousness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consciousness \Con"scious*ness\, n.
     1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own
        existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts,
        etc.
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              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.         --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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     2. Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any
        object, state, or sensation. See the Note under
        {Attention}.
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              Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you
              annihilate the consciousness of the operation. --Sir
                                                    W. Hamilton.
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              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.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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              The consciousness of wrong brought with it the
              consciousness of weakness.            --Froude.
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     3. Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of
        guilt or innocence. [R.]
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              An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest:
              to break its peace there must be some guilt or
              consciousness.                        --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  consciousness
       n 1: an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself
            and your situation; "he lost consciousness" [ant: {unconsciousness}]
       2: having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes";
          "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their
          intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" [syn:
           {awareness}, {cognizance}, {cognisance}, {knowingness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "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