Conscious vs Wideawake - What's the difference?
conscious | wideawake |
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:
(historical) A type of hat, with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
* 1884', , "The Author of Beltraffio" in ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' ' 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884).
*:"He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake , and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage windows as the train rolled up."
* 1912 , , "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories"
As an adjective conscious
is alert, awake.As a noun wideawake is
(historical) a type of hat, with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.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-consciouswideawake
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Alternative forms
* wide-awakeNoun
(en noun)- Wisps of white hair straggled from under his wideawake [...].