- the state of being able to use your senses and mental powers to understand what is happening
- I can't remember any more—I must have lost consciousness.
- She did not regain consciousness and died the next day.
Extra Examples- She hit her head on a rock and lost consciousness.
- The cold water brought me back to full consciousness.
- When she regained consciousness she was in a hospital bed.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- higher
- cosmic
- …
- lose
- recover
- regain
- …
- a level of consciousness
- a state of consciousness
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- the state of being aware of something synonym awareness
- his consciousness of the challenge facing him
- The words slowly entered her consciousness.
Extra Examples- I left the room with full consciousness of the impression I would make.
- In some cultures shamans use drugs to alter consciousness.
- They have succeeded in raising consciousness on many issues.
- a growing consciousness of environmental issues among children
- a new consciousness about the health consequences of pesticides
- an altered state of consciousness
- powerful states of cosmic consciousness
- the modern study of animal consciousness
- the practices that are used by yogis to reach divine consciousness
- to aspire to a higher consciousness
- Her consciousness of the challenge that faced her did not put her off.
- The memory remained deep in his consciousness.
- There has always been a strong social consciousness in the city.
- We need to raise people's consciousness of environmental issues.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- growing
- collective
- …
- develop
- raise
- enter
- …
- in (the) consciousness
- consciousness about
- consciousness among
- …
- the ideas and opinions of a person or group
- her newly developed political consciousness
- issues affecting the popular consciousness of the time
Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentc1- Hip-hop exploded into popular consciousness at the same time as the music video.
- Our role as educators is to develop a critical consciousness among our students.
- The idea firmly lodged itself in the public consciousness.
- These memories became an important component of Polish historical consciousness.
- a book that has changed cultural consciousness in the US
- a change that altered our collective consciousness forever
- a decline in civic consciousness and a growing indifference to public affairs
- a new political consciousness among young people
- a sense of ethnic consciousness among Lithuanian Americans
- imagery that has entered the national consciousness through the media
- In popular consciousness he will always be a hero.
- a key position in feminist consciousness
see also stream of consciousness
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