consciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conscious
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English consciousness
From conscious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: consciousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Of course it’s natural to think twice about whether your cell phone truly “knows” a favorite number, your GPS is really “figuring out” the best route home, and your Roomba is genuinely “trying” to clean the floor. But as information-processing systems become more sophisticated—as their representations of the world become richer, their goals are arranged into hierarchies of subgoals within subgoals, and their actions for attaining the goals become more diverse and less predictable—it starts to look like hominid chauvinism to insist that they don’t. (Whether information and computation explain consciousness, in addition to knowledge, intelligence, and purpose, is a question I’ll turn to in the final chapter.)
gloss: The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To lose consciousness after striking one's head
Consciousness is universal and precedes even the formation of our solar system.
Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
gloss: The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The solitude and the savage freedom filled his heart with life and buoyancy. Again he was Tarzan of the Apes—every sense alert against the chance of surprise by some jungle enemy—yet treading lightly and with head erect, in proud consciousness of his might.
gloss: The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the development of a feminist consciousness
This new anti-military consciousness surfaced at the Gay Academic Union Conference held last month in New York, where two broadsides and a meeting were held to discuss the situation. And in San Francisco, after a stormy meeting of Bay Area Gay Liberation (BAGEL), the group refused to co-sponsor a fund-raising event for former T/Sgt. Leonard Matlovich.
gloss: A being with cognition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The pantheistic mainstream asari religion is siari, which translates roughly as "All is one." The faithful agree on certain core truths: the universe is a consciousness, every life within it is an aspect of the greater whole, and death is a merging of one's spiritual energy back into the greater universal consciousness. Siarists don't specifically believe in reincarnation; they believe that spiritual energy returned to the universal consciousness upon death will eventually be used to fill new mortal vessels.
Synonyms: awareness
witfulness
Antonyms: unconsciousness
Related words: conscious
conscience
being-for-itself
Derived words: class consciousness
clouding of consciousness
consciousness-raising
dysconsciousness
mainstream consciousness
phenomenal consciousness
raise someone's consciousness
stream of consciousness
super-consciousness
supraconsciousness
time of useful consciousness
unself-consciousness
witness-consciousness
Translations:
lang: Ainu
word: エコンラム
roman: ekonramu
lang: Albanian
word: vetëdijë
lang: Southern Altai
word: санаа
roman: sanaa
lang: Arabic
word: وَعْي
roman: waʕy
lang: Arabic
word: شُعُور
roman: šuʕūr
lang: Armenian
word: գիտակցություն
roman: gitakcʻutʻyun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şüur
lang: Azerbaijani
word: anlaq
lang: Bashkir
word: аң
roman: añ
lang: Belarusian
word: свядо́масць
roman: svjadómascʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: сьвядо́масьць
roman: sʹvjadómasʹcʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: прыто́мнасць
roman: prytómnascʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: прыто́мнасьць
roman: prytómnasʹcʹ
lang: Bengali
word: চেতনা
roman: cetona
lang: Central Bikol
word: agimadmad
lang: Bulgarian
word: съзна́ние
roman: sǎznánie
lang: Bulgarian
word: съзна́телност
roman: sǎznátelnost
lang: Burmese
word: စိတ်
roman: cit
lang: Burmese
word: ဝိညာဉ်
roman: wi.nyany
lang: Burmese
word: သတိ
roman: sa.ti.
lang: Catalan
word: consciència
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 意識 /意识
roman: ji³ sik¹
lang: Chinese
word: 意識 /意识
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 意識 /意识
roman: yìshí
lang: Czech
word: vědomí
lang: Czech
word: uvědomění
lang: Danish
word: bevidsthed
lang: Dutch
word: bewustzijn
lang: Esperanto
word: konscio
lang: Estonian
word: teadvus
lang: Finnish
word: tajunta
lang: Finnish
word: tietoisuus
lang: Finnish
word: taju
lang: French
word: conscience
lang: Galician
word: consciencia
lang: Georgian
word: ცნობიერება
roman: cnobiereba
lang: German
word: Bewusstsein
lang: German
word: Gewahrsein
lang: German
word: Erkenntnis
lang: German
word: Bewusstheit
lang: German
word: Wahrnehmung
lang: Greek
word: συνείδηση
roman: syneídisi
lang: Hebrew
word: מוּדָעוּת
roman: muda'út
lang: Hindi
word: चेतना
roman: cetnā
lang: Hindi
word: होश
roman: hoś
lang: Hungarian
word: tudatosság
lang: Hungarian
word: tudat
lang: Hungarian
word: eszmélet
lang: Icelandic
word: meðvitund
lang: Indonesian
word: kesadaran
lang: Irish
word: comhfhios
lang: Italian
word: conoscenza
lang: Italian
word: coscienza
lang: Japanese
word: 意識
roman: ishiki
lang: Japanese
word: 人心地
roman: hitogokochi
lang: Kazakh
word: сана
roman: sana
lang: Khmer
word: ញាណ
roman: ñiən
lang: Khmer
word: មនសិការ
roman: mĕəʼnĕəʼsekaa
lang: Korean
word: 의식
roman: uisik
lang: Korean
word: 자각
roman: jagak
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сезүү
roman: sezüü
lang: Lao
word: ສະຕິ
roman: sa ti
lang: Latin
word: cōnsciēntia
lang: Latvian
word: samaņa
lang: Latvian
word: apziņa
lang: Lithuanian
word: sąmonė
lang: Macedonian
word: свест
roman: svest
lang: Malay
word: kesedaran
lang: Manx
word: co-yssaght
lang: Mongolian
word: ухамсар
roman: uxamsar
lang: Mongolian
word: ухаан
roman: uxaan
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bevissthet
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: medvit
lang: Occitan
word: consciéncia
lang: Pashto
word: شعور
roman: šo'úr
lang: Iranian Persian
word: خودْآگاهی
roman: xud'âgâhi
lang: Iranian Persian
word: آگاهی
roman: âgâhi
lang: Iranian Persian
word: شُعور
roman: šo'ur
lang: Iranian Persian
word: هوش
roman: huš
lang: Polish
word: przytomność
lang: Polish
word: świadomość
lang: Portuguese
word: consciência
lang: Punjabi
word: ਚੇਤਨਾ
roman: cetnā
lang: Romanian
word: conștiință
lang: Russian
word: созна́ние
roman: soznánije
lang: Russian
word: созна́тельность
roman: soznátelʹnostʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: चेतना
roman: cetanā
lang: Sanskrit
word: चेतस्
roman: cetas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: све̑ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: свије̑ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svȇst
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svijȇst
lang: Slovak
word: vedomie
lang: Slovene
word: zavest
lang: Spanish
word: conciencia
lang: Swedish
word: medvetande
lang: Tagalog
word: malay
lang: Tagalog
word: ulirat
lang: Tajik
word: шуур
roman: šuur
lang: Tajik
word: ҳуш
roman: huš
lang: Tajik
word: огоҳи
roman: ogoh-i
lang: Tatar
word: аң
roman: añ
lang: Tatar
word: һуш
roman: huş
lang: Telugu
word: చేతనము
roman: cētanamu
lang: Thai
word: สติ
roman: sà-dtì
lang: Thai
word: ความรู้สึกตัว
lang: Thai
word: ความตื่นรู้
lang: Tocharian B
word: īme
lang: Turkish
word: bilinç
lang: Turkish
word: şuur
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شعور
roman: şuûr
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: هوش
roman: huş
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ادراك
roman: idrak
lang: Turkmen
word: aň
lang: Ukrainian
word: свідо́мість
roman: svidómistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: прито́мність
roman: prytómnistʹ
lang: Urdu
word: شُعُور
roman: śu'ūr
lang: Urdu
word: ہوش
roman: hoś
lang: Uyghur
word: ئاڭ
roman: ang
lang: Uzbek
word: shuur
lang: Uzbek
word: ong
lang: Vietnamese
word: ý thức
lang: Zhuang
word: yisiz