self-conscious(NERVOUS)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Aware
abreast
acquainted
alive
alive to somethingidiom
awakening
genned up
have/keep your finger on the pulseidiom
hyper-aware
hyper-awareness
hyper-conscious
omniscient
omnisciently
on the ballidiom
on the insideidiom
over-informed
perceive
pulse
with it
with your eyes openidiom
wonky

conscious | American Dictionary

conscious
adjective
us/ˈkɑn·ʃəs/

consciousadjective (AWAKE)

awake, aware of what is happening around you, and able to think:
She’s out of surgery but not fully conscious yet.

consciousadjective (NOTICING)

noticing the existence of something:
People have become much more conscious of the need to exercise regularly.

consciousadjective (INTENTIONAL)

determined and intentional:
Was it a conscious decision to break up the group, or did it just happen?

consciousadjective (AWARE)

being especially aware of or worried about something:
Consumers aren’t as conscious of prices as they were last year.

consciously

adverbus/ˈkɑn·ʃəs·li/
I’ve never done anything consciously to offend anyone.

Examples of conscious

conscious
However, intentions and plans imply the sensation of conscious will.
We give surgery patients anesthesia to avert the agony they would feel if they remained conscious.
Here both systems function unconsciously, unlike the conscious functioning of the ventral system in the perceptual learning discussed above.
Unlike their earlier appeals to science, though, this time around actuaries made a conscious effort to practice what the scientists seemed to be preaching.
The self-organization of conscious thought must not be understood as the organization of conscious thought under the control of the self.
Patients in "minimally conscious states" are awake but have only partial preservation of awareness and responsiveness.
Singling out his conscious intentions as causes is practical and parsimonious, however, as it does not require a theory of everything.
To claim otherwise is to relegate the elaborate structure of conscious experience to a mystical state beyond the bounds of science.
Is conscious will really no more than a feeling?
Its function is to induce individuals to disengage, without conscious intention, from unprofitable situations.
This makes the expression of emotion a possibly conscious and pre-meditated behavior.
Thirty-two respondents spoke of making a conscious effort to keep busy in order to prevent despondency.
However, in the mentalistic framework, the formation and manipulation of abstract knowledge is restricted to conscious activities.
Consequently, this approach places much of the burden of transition on an interactive and often politically conscious elite rather than structures and socio-economic conditions.
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