Conscious vs. Consciousness — What's the Difference?

Aware of and responding to one's surroundings

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".

Having knowledge of something

The state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings

(of an action or feeling) deliberate and intentional

A person's awareness or perception of something

Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts.

The state or condition of being conscious.

Mentally perceptive or alert; awake

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

Capable of thought, will, or perception

Special awareness or sensitivity

Subjectively known or felt

Alertness to or concern for a particular issue or situation

Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate

In psychoanalysis, the conscious.

Inwardly attentive or sensitive to something

The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

Showing awareness of or preoccupation with something. Often used in combination

The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.

In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant; consciousness.

Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.

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

Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.

Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.

An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation;

Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.

Having knowledge of;

Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.

Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

(rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.

The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.

Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.

Intentionally conceived;

Knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts;

(followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something;