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conscious

PRONUNCIATION /ˈkɒnʃəs/

aware, awake, subjectively felt, or deliberate; later also a psychoanalytic noun

DATE: circa 1600–today
SENSE: awareness and deliberation
FAMILY: Indo-European / Germanic
CANONICAL KEY: node:1:conscious:attested:sense:awareness-and-deliberation

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Latin · Latin antiquity · knowing aware

cōnscius

knowing or aware; also knowing something along with another person

SOUND: English conscious adapts Latin cōnscius with English stress, vowel reduction, and the learned -ous ending.
MEANING: Latin knowing and awareness develop across English senses of perception, wakefulness, subjective feeling, and deliberate action.
CHRONOLOGY: Merriam-Webster reports the adjective circa 1600.
SCHOLAR: Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors
CONFIDENCE: established

Conscious — Definition, Word History, and First Known UsesupportsWord History and First Known Use

Documents direct Latin ancestry and the circa-1600 English horizon.

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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexicographic first useestablished

circa 1600

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conscious dossier · recorded as conscious

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