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adjective
1.
- alert and awake; not sleeping or comatose
- aware of one’s surroundings, one’s own thoughts and motivations, etc
2.
- aware of and giving value or emphasis to a particular fact or phenomenon: I am conscious of your great kindness to me
- (in combination): clothes-conscious
3. done with full awareness; deliberate: a conscious effort, conscious rudeness
4.
- denoting or relating to a part of the human mind that is aware of a person’s self, environment, and mental activity and that to a certain extent determines his choices of action
- (as noun): the conscious is only a small part of the mind
