consciousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) enPR: kŏnʹshəs IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.ʃəs/, /ˈkɒntʃəs/
• 韻: -ɑnʃəs, -ɒnʃəs, -ɒntʃəs

形容詞

conscious (comparative more conscious, superlative most conscious)

2. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

   The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.

3. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
   • 1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:

     The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

   Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.

4. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.

   • 1955, Arthur Smithies, The Budgetary Process in the United States, page 290:

     Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer.

   I was conscious of a noise behind me.   a very class-conscious analysis

5. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
   • 1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43:

     He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.

   • 2015, Jamie Kornegay, Soil: A Novel, page 214:

     Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person.

6. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

   conscious guilt

7. (rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.

   1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 20599507, page 229:

   He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, “Yes; it is my sister’s hair. The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know.” Elinor had met his eye, and looked conscious likewise..

   1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, part second, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, OCLC 30743985:

   They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject ; but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.

   c. 1634, John Dryden (translator), Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum sacrorum liber

   The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

同意語

• intentional deliberate, voluntary, wilful, see Thesaurus:intentional

反意語

• asleep
• unaware
• unconscious

派生語

関連する語

• conscience

名詞

conscious (複数形 consciouses)

1. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.