conscious

Definition

Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

Etymology

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 guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.

Example Sentences

• "The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious."
• "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."
• "Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious."

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