Conscious vs Realized - What's the difference?
conscious | realized |
Alert, awake.
Aware.
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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:
(realize)
To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.
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To become aware of a fact or situation.
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To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
* 1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , II:
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(business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
(transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.
* (rfdate) (Washington Irving)
(transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
As an adjective conscious
is alert, awake.As a verb realized is
(realize).conscious
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Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
- Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
- 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 .
Antonyms
* asleep * unaware * unconsciousDerived terms
* consciously * consciousness * subconscious * unconscious * preconscious * price-conscious * self-consciousrealized
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Verb
(head)realize
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Alternative forms
* realise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(realiz)- We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.
- That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
- Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.
- We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.
- Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.
- Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize , a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real.
