Mindful vs Conscience - What's the difference?
mindful | conscience |
Being aware ((of) something); attentive, heedful.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 10
, author=Marc Higginson
, title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa
, work=BBC Sport
(obsolete) Inclined (to do something).
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
*:These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].
The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.
* 1949 , , as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist ,
* 1951 , (Isaac Asimov), publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 14, page 175, ¶ 7
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 (chiefly fiction) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
(obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
* 1603 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , act 3, scene 1,
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between mindful and conscience
is that mindful is (obsolete) inclined (to do something) while conscience is (obsolete) consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.As an adjective mindful
is being aware ((of) something); attentive, heedful.As a noun conscience is
the moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.mindful
English
Alternative forms
* mindefull, mindfull (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.}}
Antonyms
* mindless * seat-of-the-pantsDerived terms
* mindfulnessExternal links
* *conscience
English
(wikipedia conscience)Noun
(en noun)- Never do anything against conscience , even if the state demands it.
- [“]Twer is not a friend of mine testifying against me reluctantly and for conscience ’ sake, as the prosecution would have you believe. He is a spy, performing his paid job.[”]
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience ,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
- And thus the native hue of resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
