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{
"term": "consciousness",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state of being able to use your senses and mental powers to understand what is happening",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can't remember any more—I must have **lost consciousness**."
},
{
"text": "She did not **regain consciousness** and died the next day."
},
{
"text": "She hit her head on a rock and lost consciousness."
},
{
"text": "The cold water brought me back to full consciousness."
},
{
"text": "When she regained consciousness she was in a hospital bed."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["full", "higher", "cosmic"],
"verb + consciousness": ["lose", "recover", "regain"],
"phrases": ["a level of consciousness", "a state of consciousness"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the state of being aware of something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "his consciousness of the challenge facing him"
},
{
"text": "The words slowly entered her consciousness."
},
{
"text": "I left the room with full consciousness of the impression I would make."
},
{
"text": "In some cultures shamans use drugs to alter consciousness."
},
{
"text": "They have succeeded in raising consciousness on many issues."
},
{
"text": "a growing consciousness of environmental issues among children"
},
{
"text": "a new consciousness about the health consequences of pesticides"
},
{
"text": "an altered state of consciousness"
},
{
"text": "powerful states of cosmic consciousness"
},
{
"text": "the modern study of animal consciousness"
},
{
"text": "the practices that are used by yogis to reach divine consciousness"
},
{
"text": "to aspire to a higher consciousness"
},
{
"text": "Her consciousness of the challenge that faced her did not put her off."
},
{
"text": "The memory remained deep in his consciousness."
},
{
"text": "There has always been a strong social consciousness in the city."
},
{
"text": "We need to raise people's consciousness of environmental issues."
}
],
"synonyms": "awareness",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["full", "growing", "collective"],
"verb + consciousness": ["develop", "raise", "enter"],
"preposition": [
"in (the) consciousness",
"consciousness about",
"consciousness among"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the ideas and opinions of a person or group",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "her newly developed political consciousness"
},
{
"text": "issues affecting the popular consciousness of the time"
},
{
"text": "Hip-hop exploded into popular consciousness at the same time as the music video."
},
{
"text": "Our role as educators is to develop a critical consciousness among our students."
},
{
"text": "The idea firmly lodged itself in the public consciousness."
},
{
"text": "These memories became an important component of Polish historical consciousness."
},
{
"text": "a book that has changed cultural consciousness in the US"
},
{
"text": "a change that altered our collective consciousness forever"
},
{
"text": "a decline in civic consciousness and a growing indifference to public affairs"
},
{
"text": "a new political consciousness among young people"
},
{
"text": "a sense of ethnic consciousness among Lithuanian Americans"
},
{
"text": "imagery that has entered the national consciousness through the media"
},
{
"text": "In popular consciousness he will always be a hero."
},
{
"text": "a key position in feminist consciousness"
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒnʃəsnəs/",
"audio": "xc/consciousness/xconsciousness__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːnʃəsnəs/",
"audio": "xc/consciousness/xconsciousness__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}