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

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Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.

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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}

Insane, mad, crazy.

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Enjoyable; fun.

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(lb) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.

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(lb) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.