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Consciousness vs Decency - What's the difference?

consciousness | decency |

As nouns the difference between consciousness and decency

is that consciousness is the state of being conscious or aware; awareness while decency is the quality of being decent; propriety.

consciousness

English

Noun

(wikipedia consciousness)
  • The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness .}}

    Derived terms

    * cyberconsciousness * hyperconsciousness * teleconsciousness * raise someone's consciousness

    Related terms

    * conscious * conscience

    See also

    * being-for-itself

    decency

    English

    Noun

  • the quality of being decent; propriety
  • * Burke
    • Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
  • * Roscommon
    • Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
  • That which is proper or becoming.
  • * Atterbury
    • The external decencies of worship.
  • * Milton
    • Those thousand decencies , that daily flow / From all her words and actions.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "decency")