consciousness
/ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ noun B2- The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
- The state or trait of having cognition and sensation; cognition and sensation themselves. · To lose consciousness after striking one's head
- The fact of having knowledge of a particular fact or matter; cognizance.
- Acute awareness (of something) and belief in its communal relevance. · the development of a feminist consciousness
- A being with cognition.
Plural consciousnesses
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“Whatever may happen, Valentine, do not be alarmed; though you suffer; though you lose sight, hearing, consciousness, fear nothing; though you should awake and be ignorant where you are, still do not fear; even though you should find yourself in a sepulchral vault or coffin.
Madame Danglars was carried into the adjoining room; Monte Cristo dropped a very small portion of the red liquid upon her lips; she returned to consciousness.
d’Avrigny soon restored the magistrate to consciousness, who had looked like a second corpse in that chamber of death.
In the meantime you must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser—
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