consciousnessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/consciousness noun [ U ] (UNDERSTANDING)
C1 the state of understanding and realizing something:
[ + that ] Her consciousness that she's different makes her feel uneasy.
Working in an unemployment office had helped to raise his political consciousness.
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- The children have no consciousness of being different.
- He is completely unaware of gender issues - we will have to raise his consciousness.
- Her consciousness of the feelings of others was the thing that made her a fantastic doctor.
- He shows no consciousness that others might find him boring.
- Does she have any consciousness of how rude other people find her?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Knowledge and awareness
- abroad
- acquaintance
- as every schoolboy/schoolchild knows idiom
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- awareness
- be ahead of the game idiom
- familiarity
- firsthand
- general knowledge
- given
- glimpse
- grounding
- have a nodding acquaintance with sb/sth idiom
- literacy
- loop
- omniscient
- perception
- perceptual
- reflexivity
- schoolboy
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consciousness noun [ U ] (AWAKE)
B2 the state of being awake, thinking, and knowing what is happening around you:
He lost consciousness after his accident and never recovered/regained it.
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- conscious
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woke
- woken
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