• Consciousness

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    Noun

    consciousness

    (countable and uncountable; plural consciousnesss)
    1. The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 5, Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
      • 2013-08-03, The machine of a new soul, Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.

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