consciousness

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[ US /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒnʃəsnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
    he lost consciousness
  2. having knowledge of
    his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced
    their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive
    he had no awareness of his mistakes
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How To Use consciousness In A Sentence

  • The woman herself lay in Epsom Cottage Hospital for four days without regaining consciousness.
  • Most intriguingly, among the described symptoms of fugu poisoning is progressive limb paralysis while maintaining consciousness.
  • But it was the introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 that really thrust her into the public's consciousness, especially as she herself was a non-driver.
  • Any instrument of knowledge proving the non-existence of consciousness, could do so only by making consciousness its object -- 'this is consciousness'; but consciousness, as being self-established, does not admit of that objectivation which is implied in the word 'this,' and hence its previous non-existence cannot be proved by anything lying outside itself. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
  • It still whispered about, prowling in the back of his consciousness, murmuring darkly even though his body was slack with well-satisfied relief. Captured by Moonlight
  • Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.
  • As such, you could look at religious tracts and systems as being blue-prints for consciousness.
  • Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
  • He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • That doesn't seem to ruffle the feathers of the American consciousness or make them feel inadequate.
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