con‧scious‧ness W3 / kɒnʃəsnəs, kɒnʃəsnɪs $ kɑn- / 名词

1 [不可数名词] the condition of being awake and able to understand what is happening around you :

David lost consciousness (= went into a deep sleep ) at eight o’clock and died a few hours later.

She could faintly hear voices as she began to regain consciousness (= wake up ) .

2 [可数和不可数名词] your mind and your thoughts :

The painful memories eventually faded from her consciousness.

Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness .

research into human consciousness

3 [可数名词] someone’s ideas, feelings, or opinions about politics, life etc :

The experience helped to change her political consciousness.

4 [不可数名词] when you know that something exists or is true 同义词 awareness :

This will increase public consciousness of the pollution issue.

→ stream of consciousness

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lose consciousness (= go into a type of deep sleep that is not normal ) As she fell, she hit her head and lost consciousness for several minutes.

regain/recover consciousness (= wake up ) I wanted to stay at the hospital until he regained consciousness.

return to consciousness When I returned to consciousness, my head was throbbing with pain.

bring somebody back to consciousness The doctors were unable to bring her back to consciousness.

drift in and out of consciousness (= be awake and then not awake, and then awake again, etc ) He had a high temperature and was drifting in and out of consciousness.