conscious

CEFRB1

/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/

adjective

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

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The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.
1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer.
1955, Arthur Smithies, The Budgetary Process in the United States, page 290
He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43

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