Conscious vs. Consciousness — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Conscious and Consciousness
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Conscious
Aware of and responding to one's surroundings
Although I was in pain, I was conscious
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Consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience or awareness of internal and external existence. Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and [also the] most mysterious aspect of our lives".
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Conscious
Having knowledge of something
We are conscious of the extent of the problem
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Consciousness
The state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings
She failed to regain consciousness and died two days later
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Conscious
(of an action or feeling) deliberate and intentional
A conscious effort to walk properly
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Consciousness
A person's awareness or perception of something
Her acute consciousness of Luke's presence
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Conscious
Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts.
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Consciousness
The state or condition of being conscious.
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Conscious
Mentally perceptive or alert; awake
The patient remained fully conscious after the local anesthetic was administered.
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Consciousness
A sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group
Love of freedom runs deep in the national consciousness.
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Conscious
Capable of thought, will, or perception
The development of conscious life on the planet.
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Consciousness
Special awareness or sensitivity
Class consciousness.
Race consciousness.
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Conscious
Subjectively known or felt
Conscious remorse.
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Consciousness
Alertness to or concern for a particular issue or situation
A movement aimed at raising the general public's consciousness of social injustice.
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Conscious
Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate
A conscious insult.
Made a conscious effort to speak more clearly.
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Consciousness
In psychoanalysis, the conscious.
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Conscious
Inwardly attentive or sensitive to something
As he spoke, he became increasingly conscious of his high-pitched voice.
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Consciousness
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
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Conscious
Showing awareness of or preoccupation with something. Often used in combination
A cost-conscious approach to health care.
A value-conscious shopper.
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Consciousness
The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.
Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections; - in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine.
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Conscious
In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant; consciousness.
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Consciousness
Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.
Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation.
And, when the steamWhich overflowed the soul had passed away,A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images and precious thoughtsThat shall not die, and can not be destroyed.
The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness.
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Conscious
Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
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Consciousness
Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.
An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness.
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Conscious
Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
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Consciousness
An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation;
He lost consciousness
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Conscious
Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
I was conscious of a noise behind me.
A very class-conscious analysis
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Consciousness
Having knowledge of;
He had no awareness of his mistakes
His sudden consciousness of the problem he faced
Their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive
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Conscious
Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
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Conscious
Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
Conscious guilt
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Conscious
(rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
Passage=They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject ; but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.
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Conscious
The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
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Conscious
Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought.
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Conscious
Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt.
The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing.
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Conscious
Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.
With conscious terrors vex me round.
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Conscious
Intentionally conceived;
A conscious effort to speak more slowly
A conscious policy
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Conscious
Knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts;
Remained conscious during the operation
Conscious of his faults
Became conscious that he was being followed
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Conscious
(followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something;
Few voters seem conscious of the issue's importance
Conscious of having succeeded
The careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load
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