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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conscious \Con"scious\, a. [L. conscius; con- + scire to know See {Conscience}.] 1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. --I. Watts. 2. Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. --Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. --De Quincey. 3. Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self as conscious guilt. With conscious terrors vex me round. --Milton. Syn: Aware; apprised; sensible; felt; known From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: conscious adj 1: intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" [syn: {witting}] 2: knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed" [ant: {unconscious}] 3: showing realization or recognition or something followed by "of"; "few voters seem conscious (or aware) of the issue's importance"; "conscious of having succeeded"; "the careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load"- Thomas Hardy [syn: {conscious(p)}]
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