<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.</li><li>the thoughts and feelings, collectively, of an individual or of an aggregate of people: the moral consciousness of a nation.</li><li>full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life: to regain consciousness after fainting.</li><li>awareness of something for what it is; internal knowledge: consciousness of wrongdoing.</li><li>concern, interest, or acute awareness: class consciousness.</li><li>the mental activity of which a person is aware as contrasted with unconscious mental processes.</li><li>Philosophy: the mind or the mental faculties as characterized by thought, feelings, and volition.</li></ul>