noun [U]
1 the state of being able to use your senses and mental powers to understand what is happening:
I can't remember any more-I must have lost consciousness. * She did not regain consciousness and died the next day.
2 the state of being aware of sth:
his consciousness of the challenge facing him * surviving traces of class-consciousness (= consciousness of different classes in society)
3 the ideas and opinions of a person or group:
her newly-developed political consciousness * issues affecting the popular consciousness of the time
seealsoSTREAMOFCONSCIOUSNESS
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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