consciousness

noun consciousnesses

1. uncountable The state of being conscious or aware; awareness. Of course it’s natural to think twice about whether your cell phone truly “knows” a favorite number, your GPS is really “figuring out” the best route home, and your Roomba is genuinely “trying” to clean the floor. But as information-processing systems become more sophisticated—as their representatio
2. countable, uncountable The state or trait of having cognition and sensation; cognition and sensation themselves. To lose consciousness after striking one's head
3. countable, uncountable The fact of having knowledge of a particular fact or matter; cognizance. Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
4. countable, uncountable Acute awareness (of something) and belief in its communal relevance. the development of a feminist consciousness
5. countable A being with cognition. The pantheistic mainstream asari religion is siari, which translates roughly as "All is one." The faithful agree on certain core truths: the universe is a consciousness, every life within it is an aspect of the greater whole, and death is a merging of one's spiritual energy back into the greater uni

Similar: awareness, witfulness · Opposite: unconsciousness