Adjective

(en adjective)

Alert, awake.

Aware.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

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Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.

Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.

* 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Done on purpose; intentional.

Tripping me was deliberate action.

Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining.

The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.

Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.

a deliberate''' opinion; a '''deliberate measure or result

* Shakespeare

settled visage and deliberate word

Not hasty or sudden; slow.

* W. Wirt

His enunciation was so deliberate .