- 1the 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.
- 2the state of being aware of something synonym awareness his consciousness of the challenge facing him class-consciousness (= consciousness of different classes in society)
- 3the ideas and opinions of a person or group her newly-developed political consciousness issues affecting the popular consciousness of the time see stream of consciousness
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