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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consciousness
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
class consciousness (=being aware of what class people belong to)
▪ There is a high level of class consciousness among the workers.
class consciousness
consciousness raising
drifted in and out of consciousness
▪ He drifted in and out of consciousness.
lost consciousness
▪ By the time the ambulance arrived, Douglas had lost consciousness.
recovered consciousness
▪ It was some hours before she recovered consciousness.
regain consciousness (=be able to see, move, and understand what is happening around you again)
▪ He died three days later without regaining consciousness.
stream of consciousness
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
collective
▪ But, since the heyday of the missionaries, the collective consciousness has nevertheless undergone a sea-change.
▪ If the nub of the nation lies in collective sentiment the obvious question is how does this collective consciousness arise?
false
▪ And it is unclear how certain individuals, namely Marxists, transcend false consciousness.
▪ They also encourage the development of false class consciousness.
▪ For Marx and Engels the working class had nothing to lose but their chains of false consciousness.
▪ In short, their transgression was motivated by false consciousness.
▪ For them, too, it is simply ideology and false consciousness.
▪ In antiracist analyses the irrationality of popular or working-class racism is conceptualized primarily as a form of false consciousness.
▪ Both the bourgeois ideology and the proletarian false consciousness are products of particular social relations present in capitalism.
full
▪ And then a great wave breaks over me and I emerge into full consciousness.
▪ Visions or nightmares for others, but for him daylight events, in full consciousness.
▪ She then returns to full consciousness with her past subtly changed.
▪ With the coming of full consciousness among these and related currents, Trotskyism will become a powerful current.
▪ The brain drifts back to full consciousness now that there is a vague hint of light spreading across the eastern sky.
▪ Departure from this norm must be weighed with full consciousness of the heavy risks involved. 4.
▪ Because there is no escaping the fact that we have, with full consciousness, terminated life.
▪ Later that evening, when I was almost asleep, the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness.
high
▪ The higher states of consciousness can not be attained by will-power and application, any more than any other talent.
▪ It marks the end of everything even remotely associated with higher consciousness.
▪ We can aspire to a higher consciousness.
▪ This requires the highest possible consciousness, and therefore complete honesty and integrity, no matter how bitter the immediate consequences.
▪ Inner journeys also provide one way of accessing our higher consciousness, and our unseen friends.
▪ Casting themselves into chaos, hoping to adhere to higher consciousness, to be washed up on the shores of truth.
▪ The lights one sees in yogic concentration are the lights of various powers or forces of the higher consciousness....
human
▪ The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
▪ It has no other being except that which is bestowed upon it by human activity and consciousness.
▪ Hegel detected this dialectical progression in the progress of human consciousness and intellectual - emotional growth.
▪ I picture the evolution of human consciousness in the shape of an hourglass.
▪ Marx none the less believed that an external reality did exist, and that human consciousness could understand it.
▪ But one thing it represents far me is this: the eternal conflict between the analytical and creative aspects of human consciousness.
▪ That obviously does not extend to the levels of awareness which human consciousness exhibits, but where do you draw the line?
▪ What happens, then, if we substitute the cat with an ape-man, just at the dawn of human consciousness?
individual
▪ The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
▪ Psychology takes subjectivity, unique individual consciousness, as its object.
▪ This process constitutes an objective social reality for individual consciousness.
▪ Many later novelists have benefited from this store, and from other forms of modernist facility in rendering individual consciousness.
▪ We are the product of our thoughts and Mind; our individual expression of consciousness.
lost
▪ Amal lost consciousness after the third boy raped her.
▪ When we called, he replied, although he soon must have lost consciousness.
▪ Spike closed his eye and again lost consciousness.
▪ Falling down the steps, the poor woman banged her head against the side wall of the shelter and lost consciousness.
modern
▪ There are two eighteenth centuries vivid to the modern literary consciousness.
▪ She is a modern woman, with a modern consciousness.
national
▪ It grows in particular communities and in the difficult-to-define territory of the national consciousness.
▪ What sounded at the time like the ultimate novelty music has somehow become part of the national consciousness.
▪ Sukarno began to tour Java, addressing massive crowds on the theme of the awakening of national consciousness.
▪ This public appeal by the President did much to awaken a spirit of national consciousness in the PeoPle.
▪ As a result, for the first time, national politics and consciousness are penetrating into virtually every Andean valley and hamlet.
▪ Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.
▪ Mounting social tension was accompanied by the swift development of national consciousness among the Empire's ethnic minorities.
political
▪ The economically less powerful sections of the middle classes were growing fast both in numbers and in political consciousness.
▪ It is time, it seems, to bring the investment aspects of family decision making into our economic and political consciousness.
▪ Yet deprivation alone does not explain the militancy and relatively strong political consciousness of the factory proletariat.
▪ Moreover, outside Moscow and St Petersburg political consciousness among landowners remained weak.
▪ The overall tone of noble criticism remained moderate, yet political consciousness had taken a momentous leap since Nicholas's death.
popular
▪ Indeed, it reinforces the statusquo, closes off discussion and analysis, and restricts rather than expands popular consciousness.
▪ He formulated the notion to elucidate the particular problem of how scientific ideas become represented in popular consciousness.
practical
▪ In due course, when the transition is successfully achieved, these new ways return to the level of practical consciousness.
▪ They colour everyday life, in terms of both verbal and practical consciousness.
▪ Successful practice requires a thorough understanding of how a shift from practical to verbal consciousness occurs and may be facilitated.
▪ Fourthly, in some cases elders may be assessed as having little practical consciousness.
▪ The concept of practical consciousness is especially helpful in accommodating this commonplace fact.
▪ But practical consciousness can be converted into verbal consciousness in many instances.
▪ A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness - predictability reduces anxiety.
public
▪ Leary belonged to that second string of artists, very good but never thrust into the public consciousness.
▪ The bike coalition is also seeking to raise the public consciousness about the benefits of biking.
▪ As a result this very large pay-out to 1.4m families has made scant impact on public consciousness.
▪ The Olympian deities themselves no longer dominated public consciousness as they had done for centuries past.
▪ Inevitably, in time, some of the progressive ideas being put forward seeped into public consciousness.
▪ It emerged in public consciousness as a reaction to Charles Darwin and the evolution controversy.
▪ The United States' economic success during the 90s embedded this idea in the public consciousness.
▪ The Women's Liberation or Feminist Movement was influential in bringing women's issues into public consciousness.
regained
▪ He slowly regained consciousness to find himself on the floor of Ixora's bedroom, fully dressed.
▪ Mr Hutchinson stayed at his son's bedside throughout Sunday but Gary never regained consciousness.
social
▪ It will be a world in which individuality is better respected and social consciousness is more mature.
▪ New forces have emerged this last war and the awakening of social consciousness.
▪ No amount of censorship could hold back the rise of a new social consciousness bursting to find expression.
▪ Because of the stress on argumentation, the rhetorical approach warns against assuming the internal consistency of social consciousness or social representations.
▪ Occupation always defined class and class defined social consciousness and status.
verbal
▪ Any breakdown in routine commonly demands a shift into verbal consciousness while new ways of behaving are learned.
▪ They colour everyday life, in terms of both verbal and practical consciousness.
▪ Successful practice requires a thorough understanding of how a shift from practical to verbal consciousness occurs and may be facilitated.
▪ The first is discursive or verbal consciousness.
▪ Strongly held desires are likely to belong to the level of verbal consciousness.
▪ This aspect of assessment is essential because a person's verbal consciousness is critical for making sense of the world.
▪ All this is commonly done without any demonstration of verbal consciousness or deliberate reflection.
▪ But practical consciousness can be converted into verbal consciousness in many instances.
■ NOUN
class
▪ At this stage its members have class consciousness and class solidarity.
▪ There is no trace of conceit, arrogance or class consciousness about her.
▪ There has, therefore, been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups.
▪ This separate class consciousness he endeavored to dispel.
▪ They also encourage the development of false class consciousness.
▪ This pattern is confirmed by analyses of the process underlying the development of class consciousness among workers.
▪ Low levels of class consciousness are exacerbated by clientelism, which links the peasant through personal relationships to some one in another class.
▪ Union commitment grew, in some cases, from pre-existing class consciousness.
self
▪ To do it requires a Jack of self consciousness, and a trust of your own words.
■ VERB
alter
▪ Sleep-deprived viewers in altered states of consciousness can marvel at the jaw-dropping splendor of animated Cecil B.. DeMille shots.
▪ For thousands of years, some cultures have used plants and herbs believed to have healing properties or to alter consciousness.
▪ Experiences of dramatically altered consciousness can be traumatic.
▪ Substances that alter consciousness are found in use among probably all the people of the world.
bring
▪ We take time to ponder and bring to consciousness whatever is evoked.
▪ Actual meaning is thus that part of the potential meaning which is brought to consciousness by a particular experience to be expressed.
▪ It helps to bring them into consciousness and accept them.
▪ Hurrying back to the town, they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness.
▪ What events and experiences bring women to a consciousness of these disadvantages?
develop
▪ The question then arises, how did these activists develop such a consciousness as waged workers and trade unionists?
▪ Being conscious is how to bake the bread and baking can help develop consciousness.
▪ Any apparent fragmentation is a ruling class stratagem designed to divide exploited classes which develop revolutionary or reformist consciousness.
▪ Hoyle suggested that a cloud of interstellar gas could develop a consciousness.
enter
▪ And that hostility entered their historic consciousness.
▪ Unless I am alert and purposefully listening for them, they do not enter my consciousness.
lose
▪ He heard the clean crack of a leg bone but did not lose consciousness.
▪ What is the last recollection before losing consciousness and the first thing recalled after regaining awareness?
▪ He then grabs his throat with both hands, as if suddenly choking, closes his eyes and pretends to lose consciousness.
▪ If you lose consciousness, even for a second, then you have suffered brain damage and must withdraw from further competition.
▪ I slice a piece out of my finger, see the blood pour out, and lose consciousness.
▪ Any sailor would tell you a swift inrush of water to the mouth and nose makes you speedily lose consciousness.
▪ Part of his strength was in never losing consciousness for the whole affair, his good eye seeming never to close.
raise
▪ She'd sit round trying to raise his consciousness.
▪ It raised consciousness about historic preservation, and led to the formation of the numerous historic districts that today ring the downtown.
▪ They aimed to raise people's consciousness of their position in society.
▪ The bike coalition is also seeking to raise the public consciousness about the benefits of biking.
▪ Furthermore women are now sought after by the unions which are themselves trying to raise women's consciousness.
▪ It can raise consciousness of the whole process of continuing self-appraisal.
▪ Perhaps we have Pat Buchanan to thank for at least some of this raising of consciousness.
recover
▪ I recover consciousness, not knowing where I am.
regain
▪ Officers tried to resuscitate him but he did not regain consciousness.
▪ He regained consciousness and crawled back to the house to be taken care of by his young wife.
▪ Mrs Fanshawe had regained consciousness in Stowerton Royal Infirmary after her six-week-long coma.
▪ She regained consciousness in a corner of the wall; people were talking, including, it seemed to her Deputy Yang.
▪ Two and a half weeks after the accident, he began to regain consciousness.
▪ But when the man finally regains consciousness and staggers to a mirror, even he is unsure of who he is.
▪ He had regained consciousness, but was drowsy and uncomfortable.
▪ In many instances, the person with a major seizure will be confused after regaining consciousness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The death of President Kennedy almost 40 years ago still lives in the national consciousness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the extent of these associative and other processes increases as we ascend the scale of consciousness.
▪ Compared to the rest of the universe, intelligence and consciousness and life are stable instabilities.
▪ He then grabs his throat with both hands, as if suddenly choking, closes his eyes and pretends to lose consciousness.
▪ Her legs were almost too shaky to hold her up and she felt consciousness closing down.
▪ I slice a piece out of my finger, see the blood pour out, and lose consciousness.
▪ If you lose consciousness, even for a second, then you have suffered brain damage and must withdraw from further competition.
▪ My consciousness was raised, my knuckles were rapped and I no longer write or think that way.
▪ The whole problem is consciousness, organization and leadership.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consciousness

Consciousness \Con"scious*ness\, n.

  1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.

    Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or ``ego'' of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

  2. Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.

    Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

    And, when the steam Which overflowed the soul had passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and can not be destroyed.
    --Wordsworth.

    The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness.
    --Froude.

  3. Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence. [R.]

    An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness.
    --Pope.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consciousness

1630s, "internal knowledge," from conscious + -ness. Meaning "state of being aware" is from 1746.

Wiktionary
consciousness

n. The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

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WordNet
consciousness

  1. n. an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; "he lost consciousness" [ant: unconsciousness]

  2. 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" [syn: awareness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness]

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Wikipedia
Consciousness (Smile Empty Soul album)

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. 1 "We're Through" also included a live music video for the song.

Consciousness (disambiguation)

Consciousness may refer to:

  • The process of cognition, i.e. the focus of cognitive science.
  • The opposite of unconsciousness, i.e. the opposite of a comatose state or coma.
  • The process of awareness as in "I was not conscious of the wind blowing."
  • Consciousness! (Eric Kloss album), 1970
  • Consciousness (Pat Martino album), 1974
  • Consciousness (Smile Empty Soul album), 2009
Consciousness (Pat Martino album)

Consciousness is an album by guitarist Pat Martino which was recorded in 1974 and first released on the Muse label.

Consciousness

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives."

Western philosophers, since the time of Descartes and Locke, have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness and pin down its essential properties. Issues of concern in the philosophy of consciousness include whether the concept is fundamentally coherent; whether consciousness can ever be explained mechanistically; whether non-human consciousness exists and if so how can it be recognized; how consciousness relates to language; whether consciousness can be understood in a way that does not require a dualistic distinction between mental and physical states or properties; and whether it may ever be possible for computing machines like computers or robots to be conscious, a topic studied in the field of artificial intelligence.

Thanks to recent developments in technology, consciousness has become a significant topic of research in psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience within the past few decades. The primary focus is on understanding what it means biologically and psychologically for information to be present in consciousness—that is, on determining the neural and psychological correlates of consciousness. The majority of experimental studies assess consciousness by asking human subjects for a verbal report of their experiences (e.g., "tell me if you notice anything when I do this"). Issues of interest include phenomena such as subliminal perception, blindsight, denial of impairment, and altered states of consciousness produced by alcohol and other drugs, or spiritual or meditative techniques.

In medicine, consciousness is assessed by observing a patient's arousal and responsiveness, and can be seen as a continuum of states ranging from full alertness and comprehension, through disorientation, delirium, loss of meaningful communication, and finally loss of movement in response to painful stimuli. Issues of practical concern include how the presence of consciousness can be assessed in severely ill, comatose, or anesthetized people, and how to treat conditions in which consciousness is impaired or disrupted.

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Usage examples of "consciousness".

In here, his body motionless, his affinity expanding his consciousness through bitek processors and incorporated brains, his mentality was raised by an order of magnitude.

A, the U, the M, and the Silence -- are interpreted allegorically as referring to four planes, degrees, or modes of consciousness.

According to the principle of apperception, the new experience must organize itself with whatever thoughts and feelings are now occupying consciousness.

By connecting isolated things with mental groups already formed, and by assigning to the new its proper place among them, apperception not only increases the clearness and definiteness of ideas, but knits them more firmly to our consciousness.

One way that this archetypal association manifests itself in dreams is that there is a tendency for the quality of light in dreams to be metaphoric of the quality of waking consciousness that has already been brought to the main theme of the dream.

In this sense, the Mandala is an archetypal form generated by unconscious nature well prior to the evolution of human consciousness.

The Trickster is another archetype standing at the boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious.

The initial antinomy between the narrative of the author, which distorts the independent consciousness of the hero, and confession, which drowns the eternal and the universal in subjectivity, has been overcome.

For instance, Francis Crick and Christof Koch believe that consciousness depends crucially on some form of serial attentional mechanism that helps sets of the relevant neurons to fire in a coherent semioscillatory way, probably at a frequency in the 40-70 Hz range.

For those situations in which these measures prove inadequate, chemists have produced a stunning array of drugs to control the mind, such as those to enable people to relax, to become mentally aroused and alert, to sleep, to relieve anxiety, to overcome depression, to counteract attentional disorders, to improve the memory, and to experience euphoria, bliss, and even alleged mystical states of consciousness.

His forgetfulness, at first seemingly attributable to age, leads to a blurring of his awareness between consciousness and dreaming, between things that happened long ago and events as they unfold in the present.

We designate as organisms the elephant and the bacterian, only because we assume by analogy in those creatures the same conjunction of feeling and consciousness that we know to exist in ourselves.

Since he had regained consciousness, Baculum had been both lucid and passive, if completely uncooperative.

Allowing him consciousness and intentions, as we must, what object could he have either in exerting his creative power or in sending out portions of himself in new individuals, save the production of so many immortal personalities of will, knowledge, and love, to advance towards the perfection of holiness, wisdom, and blessedness, filling his mansions with his children?

As the blessed Father hath inspired me with the knowledge of him, and I am blessed with the consciousness of his immortal love, so he that believes and assimilates these truths as I proclaim them, he shall experience the same blessedness through my instruction.