consciousness
♦ con|scious|ness /k'ɒnʃəsnəs/ (consciousnesses)
1 [N-COUNT] usu sing, usu poss N
Your consciousness is your mind and your thoughts.
That idea has been creeping into our consciousness for some time.
= awareness
2 [N-UNCOUNT] with supp
The consciousness of a group of people is their set of ideas, attitudes, and beliefs.
The Greens were the catalysts of a necessary change in the European consciousness.
= mentality
3 [N-UNCOUNT] supp N
You use consciousness to refer to an interest in and knowledge of a particular subject or idea.
Her political consciousness sprang from her upbringing when her father's illness left the family short of money.
= awareness
4 [N-UNCOUNT]
Consciousness is the state of being awake rather than being asleep or unconscious. If someone loses consciousness, they become unconscious, and if they regain consciousness, they become conscious after being unconscious.
She banged her head and lost consciousness...
He drifted in and out of consciousness.
5
see also stream of consciousnesscon|scious|ness rais|ing
[N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Consciousness raising is the process of developing awareness of an unfair situation, with the aim of making people want to help in changing it.
...consciousness-raising groups.stream of con|scious|ness (streams of consciousness)
also stream-of-consciousness
[N-VAR] oft N n
If you describe what someone writes or says as a stream of consciousness, you mean that it expresses their thoughts as they occur, rather than in a structured way. (FORMAL)
The novel is an intensely lyrical stream-of-consciousness about an Indian woman who leaves her family home to be married...
1 [N-COUNT] usu sing, usu poss N
Your consciousness is your mind and your thoughts.
That idea has been creeping into our consciousness for some time.
= awareness
2 [N-UNCOUNT] with supp
The consciousness of a group of people is their set of ideas, attitudes, and beliefs.
The Greens were the catalysts of a necessary change in the European consciousness.
= mentality
3 [N-UNCOUNT] supp N
You use consciousness to refer to an interest in and knowledge of a particular subject or idea.
Her political consciousness sprang from her upbringing when her father's illness left the family short of money.
= awareness
4 [N-UNCOUNT]
Consciousness is the state of being awake rather than being asleep or unconscious. If someone loses consciousness, they become unconscious, and if they regain consciousness, they become conscious after being unconscious.
She banged her head and lost consciousness...
He drifted in and out of consciousness.
5
see also stream of consciousnesscon|scious|ness rais|ing
[N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Consciousness raising is the process of developing awareness of an unfair situation, with the aim of making people want to help in changing it.
...consciousness-raising groups.stream of con|scious|ness (streams of consciousness)
also stream-of-consciousness
[N-VAR] oft N n
If you describe what someone writes or says as a stream of consciousness, you mean that it expresses their thoughts as they occur, rather than in a structured way. (FORMAL)
The novel is an intensely lyrical stream-of-consciousness about an Indian woman who leaves her family home to be married...