An article published in Harvard Menâs Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CONSCIOUS
conscious
(adjective) (followed by âofâ) showing realization or recognition of something; âfew voters seem conscious of the issueâs importanceâ; âconscious of having succeededâ; âthe careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic loadâ- Thomas Hardy
conscious
(adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; âremained conscious during the operationâ; âconscious of his faultsâ; âbecame conscious that he was being followedâ
conscious, witting
(adjective) intentionally conceived; âa conscious effort to speak more slowlyâ; âa conscious policyâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
conscious (comparative more conscious, superlative most conscious)
Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
Self-conscious.
Antonyms
• asleep
• unaware
• unconscious
Noun
conscious (plural consciouses)
The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
Source: Wiktionary
Con"scious, a. Etym: [L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See Conscience.]
1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.
2. Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.
3. Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt. With conscious terrors vex me round. Milton.
Syn.
– Aware; apprised; sensible; felt; known.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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