Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.
Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of gui...
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