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How to pronounce consciousness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms awareness, cognisance, cognizance, knowingness
Type of knowing
Has types feel, sense, self-awareness
Derivation conscious


his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced.
Type Words
Type of cognitive state, state of mind
Has types ego, esthesia, aesthesia, awareness, self, sensibility, sentience, stream of consciousness, waking
Derivation conscious


he lost consciousness.

Examples of consciousness

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Events may simply push Enron out of the public consciousness long before autumn.
From the businessweek.com
Salazar lost consciousness in the dugout and was airlifted to a nearby hospital.
From the stltoday.com
Its depiction of not-quite-human consciousness recalls Golding's The Inheritors.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is nagging problem yet to be tackled in the back of a national consciousness.
From the guardian.co.uk
Subliminal means that the effect functions below the threshold of consciousness.
From the theepochtimes.com
The skinning may begin while the animal is conscious or regaining consciousness.
From the theepochtimes.com
The chain has benefited also from the growing health consciousness of consumers.
From the independent.co.uk
Beneath the clamor the national consciousness seems broadly, if quietly, uneasy.
From the theatlantic.com
Currently, a player has to sit if he loses consciousness for any length of time.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
More examples
  • An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; "he lost consciousness"
  • Awareness: having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"
  • (conscious) intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy"
  • (consciously) with awareness; "she consciously played with the idea of inviting them"
  • Consciousness is variously defined as subjective experience, awareness, the ability to experience "feeling", wakefulness, or the executive control system of the mind.Farthing, 1992 It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena. ...
  • Consciousness is the fourth full-length album by post-grunge band Smile Empty Soul. The album was released on August 25, 2009. "Don't Ever Leave" was chosen as the first single off the album. It was also revealed that the band will be shooting a video for the song.
  • In philosophy, a computational theory of mind names a view that the human mind or the human brain (or both) is an information processing system and that thinking is a form of computing. The theory was proposed in its modern form by Hilary Putnam in 1961, and developed by the MIT philosopher and cognitive scientist Jerry Fodor (who was Putnam's PhD student) in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s...
  • (Conscious (Alias episode)) The third season of the American drama/adventure television series Alias premiered September 28, 2003 on ABC and concluded May 23, 2004 and was released on DVD in region 1 on September 7, 2004. Guest stars in season three include Vivica A. ...
  • (conscious) alert, awake; aware; aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness