Definition of: conscious

(kon′shəs) adjective
1. Immediately aware of; mentally recognizing, to some degree and extent, one's own inner feeling and thought, or their objective reference.
2. Unjustifiably embarrassed by the sense of one's own individuality; self–conscious.
3. Mentally alert; well aware of some object, impression, or truth.
4. Present in the mind; recognized as belonging to oneself: conscious superiority.
5. Cognizant of guilt or fault.
6. Deliberate: a conscious lie.
7. Pertaining to consciousness.
8. Having the faculty and psychical attributes of consciousness.
9. Obs. Possessing knowledge in common with another; mutually informed.
—noun Psychoanal. That part of mental life of which an individual is aware. [<L conscius <com- together + scire know]
—con′scious·ly adverb Synonyms (adj.): aware, cognizant, sensible. One is aware of that which exists without him; he is conscious of the inner workings of his own mind. Sensible may be used in the exact sense of conscious, or it may partake of both the senses mentioned above. One may be sensible of his own or another's error; he is conscious only of his own. A person may feel assured or sure of something false or non–existent; what he is aware of, still more what he is conscious of, must be fact. Sensible has often a reference to the emotions, where conscious might apply only to the intellect; to say a culprit is sensible of his degradation is more forcible than to say he is conscious of it. Antonyms: dead, deaf, ignorant, insensible, unaware, unconscious.