noun
definition
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
Examples of consciousness in a Sentence
Her eyes drooped and she lost consciousness again.
He had regained consciousness that morning.
He was tormented by the consciousness of his own weakness.
The last thing she saw before she lost consciousness was a rock ledge coming at her.
He was a nobleman, fond of peace and actuated by the consciousness of a great mission.
Religion is consciousness of the infinite.
She drifted in and out of consciousness – which was probably why she thought she was dreaming when she heard the voice calling her name.
Our actual consciousness of freedom is not seriously disputed.
This consciousness is a source of self-cognition quite apart from and independent of reason.
She couldn't argue that point, but Alex might regain consciousness and she wanted to be there if he did.
The creature's third sip drove her into the darkness between consciousness and sleep.
Struggling with consciousness, Jackson first noticed the intense burning in his throat.
One thought had been gnawing at her consciousness since the first time she suspected him of being involved in drugs.
She hung, helpless and exhausted, stuck in the in-between place until the pain of her head hitting something hard jarred her into consciousness.
The world faded into shadow and light then into an uncomfortable darkness, not quite sleep but not consciousness either.
By morning he still hadn't regained consciousness and they were starting to use the word coma.
He attacks Hegelianism for its pantheism, its lowering of human personality, and imperfect recognition of the demands of the moral consciousness.
Newman, Frances Power Cobbe, and others, for their more modern speculative belief in God, which, while non-Christian or at least non-orthodox, held to an immanent God, continually revealing himself - in the moral consciousness.
He must have reached an arm across the warmth next to him and her nearly soundless mewl began his slow but steady rise to the surface of consciousness.
He had no idea how long it would take her to regain consciousness, or, if even then, she would be strong enough to free herself, yet he saw no other option.
Fading in and out of consciousness, Claire blinked to try to clear her vision.
A wave of anger came out of nowhere, surging through her veins and washing the resentment to the surface of her consciousness.
As regards their common opposition to the Turk, this appeal led to nothing; but it marked the growth of a new Italian consciousness.
And so the Scotsmen fell back upon the witness of consciousness.
The great critic of scepticism has diverged from idealism toward scepticism again, or has given his idealism a sceptical colour, mitigated - but only mitigated - by faith in the moral consciousness.
Not that a posteriori is denied, or that idealism even in Hegel tries to evolve reality out of the philosopher's inner consciousness.
His reply to Hume was this - Mechanical causation is as real as the unity of consciousness.
All parts of matter have an inward plastic life whereby they can fashion themselves to the best advantage, according to their capability, though not with consciousness.
There is no sign that Tauler, for example, or Ruysbroeck, or Thomas a Kempis had felt the dogmatic teaching of the Church jar in any single point upon their religious consciousness.
Religion therefore is "nothing else than the consciousness of the infinity of the consciousness; or, in the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own.
Feuerbach labours under the same difficulty as Fichte; both thinkers strive in vain to reconcile the religious consciousness with subjectivism.
The facts of consciousness are the only facts which, to begin with, we are justified in asserting to exist.
It brings out into clear consciousness certain potentialities in the realization of which man's true good must consist.
More dimly still visions of what the first bird may have been like could be reasonably entertained; and, passing even to a higher antiquity, the reptilian parent whence all birds have sprung was brought within reach of man's consciousness.
In Der Kampf urns Dasein am Himmel von Prel endeavoured to apply the Darwinian doctrine of organic evolution not only to the sphere of consciousness but also even more widely as the philosophical principle of the world.
Their representation of the moral character, the religious consciousness, the teaching of Jesus, inspires confidence.
The ultimate triumph of the good spirit is an ethical demand of the religious consciousness and the quintessence of Zoroaster's religion.
Y of finding and applying a criterion of the presence or absence of consciousness, it is none the less desirable, in the interests of psychology, to state that truly instinctive acts (as defined) are accompanied by consciousness.
This marks them off from such reflex acts as are unconsciously performed, and from the tropisms of plants and other lowly organisms. There remains, however, the difficulty of finding any satisfactory criterion of the presence of consciousness.
The chief interest of the Spanish period lies in the advance of settlement in the western territories of the United States, the international intrigues - British, French and Spanish - involving the future of the valley, the demand of the United States for free navigation on the Mississippi, and the growing consciousness of the supreme importance of the river and New Orleans to the Union.
The soul, as being immaterial, is immortal, and its consciousness does not depend upon its connexion with the body.
This was the 3rd of December 1894; he was gaily talking on the verandah of his house at Vailima when he had a stroke of apoplexy, from which he never recovered consciousness, and passed away painlessly in the course of the evening.
The act of consciousness, according to him, is the basis-.
These acts of consciousness are manifestations of will, which is the motive and creative power of the intellectual life.
Admitting Kant's hypothesis that by inner sense we are conscious of mental states only, he holds that this consciousness constitutes a knowledge of the "thing-in-itself" - which Kant denies.
Careful experiment and observation, not the inner consciousness, are, he insists, the only foundations of true science.
The king's consciousness of his weakness was combined with a sense of duty, and it was upon these two.
Knowing the almost endless complexity of organic structures, realizing that man himself with all the mystery of his life and consciousness must be included in any explanation of the origin of living things, they preferred to regard living things as something apart from the rest of nature, specially cared for, specially created by a Divine Being.
Reinhold lays greater emphasis than Kant upon the unity and activity of consciousness.
The principle of consciousness tells us that every idea is related both to an object and a subject, and is partly to be distinguished, partly united to both.