consciousness

CEFRB1

/ˈkɒnʃəsnəs/

noun

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noun
The state of being awake and aware.
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noun
Extra detail
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

Examples

I can't remember any more—I must have lost consciousness.
The boxer finally recovered consciousness, ten minutes after he had been knocked out.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

The state or trait of having cognition and sensation; cognition and sensation themselves.
The fact of having knowledge of a particular fact or matter; cognizance.
A being with cognition.

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He has not yet recovered consciousness.
To lose consciousness after striking one's head
the development of a feminist consciousness

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Consciousness is universal and precedes even the formation of our solar system.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 39
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.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Religion Codex entry
Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
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.
1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 127

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Origin

noun

From conscious + -ness.

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noun

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noun

He lost blank after the blow to his head and woke up hours later.