All 15 Uses of
conscious
in
A Room With A View
- She sidled towards them and sat down, self-conscious as she always was on entering a room which contained one man, or a man and one woman.†
Chpt 3 *self-conscious = nervousness or discomfort felt by someone due to concern about what others will think of them
- Well educated, well endowed, and not deficient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.†
Chpt 8
- "Hitherto never—not even that day on the lawn when you agreed to marry me—" He became self-conscious and kept glancing round to see if they were observed.†
Chpt 9
- She was again conscious of some new idea, and was not sure whither it would lead her.†
Chpt 2
- She was conscious of her discontent; it was new to her to be conscious of it.†
Chpt 4
- She was conscious of her discontent; it was new to her to be conscious of it.†
Chpt 4
- By an odd chance—unless we believe in a presiding genius of places—the statues that relieve its severity suggest, not the innocence of childhood, nor the glorious bewilderment of youth, but the conscious achievements of maturity.†
Chpt 5
- If you will not think me rude, we residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little—handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' or 'through' and go on somewhere else.†
Chpt 6unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anythingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Lucy, when admonished, began to move to and fro between the rooms, more conscious of the discomforts of packing by candlelight than of a subtler ill.†
Chpt 7
- The clergyman was conscious of some bitter disappointment which he could not keep out of his voice.†
Chpt 8
- You are conscious of having said something indiscreet?†
Chpt 8
- At that supreme moment he was conscious of nothing but absurdities.†
Chpt 9
- Cecil said one day—and I thought it so profound—that there are two kinds of cads—the conscious and the subconscious.†
Chpt 14 *
- It was really a ruse of Lucy's to justify her despondency—a ruse of which she was not herself conscious, for she was marching in the armies of darkness.†
Chpt 18
- But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than this.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(conscious as in: conscious after the operation) awake (not asleep or in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything)
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(2)
(conscious as in: a conscious effort to lose weight) intentional (done on purpose) -- perhaps with significant effort
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(3)
(conscious as in: environmentally conscious) aware or concerned about something
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(4)
(conscious as in: the conscious mind) mental activity of which one is self-aware
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(5)
(conscious as in: conscious life on other planets) capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
- (6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)