Consciousness | Mean of consciousness in English Dictionary

/ˈkɑːnʃəsnəs/

• Noun
• the condition of being conscious
1. She experienced a brief loss of consciousness. = She lost consciousness [=became unconscious] briefly.
2. He slowly regained consciousness [=became conscious again; woke up] after the surgery.
• a person's mind and thoughts
1. The realization first entered my consciousness when I was a young child.
2. The memory was forever etched in her consciousness.
3. The medication caused her to enter an altered state of consciousness.
• knowledge that is shared by a group of people
1. The events have become part of the national consciousness.
2. a crisis that has faded from the public consciousness [=that the public no longer remembers or thinks about]

• awareness or knowledge of something specified
1. a magazine that aims to raise the political consciousness of teenagers [=to make teenagers more aware of political issues]
2. I was impressed by his consciousness of our situation.
3. She developed a strong social consciousness. [=she became aware of important social issues]
4. He hopes that he can raise public consciousness of the disease.