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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง “conscience” = “KON-shuh ns”

ออกเสียง “conscientious” = “kon-shee-EN-shuh s”

ออกเสียง “conscious” = “KON-shuh s”

ออกเสียง “consciousness” = “KON-shuh s-nis”

Dictionary.com

SYNONYM STUDY FOR CONSCIOUS

Conscious, aware, cognizant

refer to an individual sense of recognition of something

within or without oneself.

Conscious implies to be awake or awakened to an inner realization of a fact, a truth, a condition, etc.: to be conscious of an extreme weariness.

Aware lays the emphasis on sense perceptions insofar as they are the object of conscious recognition: He was aware of the odor of tobacco.

Cognizant lays the emphasis on an outer recognition more on the level of reason and knowledge than on the sensory level alone: He was cognizant of their drawbacks.

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree

Conscience หมายถึง

recognition of difference between right and wrong:

His conscience bothered him when he cheated on the test.

Not to be confused with:

conscious – aware; capable of thought or will:

a conscious decision; cognizant:

She was conscious of the stranger standing close to her.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage Notes

'Conscience' vs. 'Conscious':

Avoiding confusion involves grammar and 'science'

What to Know

Though they sound similar,

conscience is a noun referring to the awareness that one's actions are right or wrong, as in one's "guilty conscience,"

while conscious is an adjective meaning "awake" or "alert."

If you were asleep you would be "unconscious."

To keep them straight, remember to stay conscious of what your conscience is telling you to do.

As conscientious lexicographers,

we are conscious of the occasional mix-up of the words conscience and conscious.

This article will help you to readily differentiate the words

and use them with confidence in the future,

And if wrongly using conscience in place of conscious, or vice versa,

has never been on your conscience, we encourage you to read on anyways.

Conscience and conscious derive from the same Latin roots

—the prefix com- ("with," "together," "jointly")

and the verb scire ("to know"),

and the combination, conscire, means "to be aware of guilt"

—and both relate to a state of awareness,

the first of a moral awareness

and the second of a physical or mental wakefulness

in which a person is aware of their surroundings.

English speakers are first made aware of conscience in the 13th century, and conscious in the 16th.

Conscience and conscious have similar pronunciations,

which, for some, causes confusion.

(Their first syllables are pronounced the same,

and they both contain a middle \sh\ sound.)

For those who hesitate on which to use,

learning the words' suffixes and their meanings

and also the words' parts of speech might be the best approach in differentiating them.

Conscience, having the noun suffix -ence,

meaning "quality or state," is, well, a noun,

and conscious, having the adjective suffix -ous,

meaning "having," is an adjective.

What Does Conscience Mean?

The noun conscience refers to a state of awareness or a sense that one's actions or intentions are either morally right or wrong,

along with a feeling of obligation to do the right thing.

What Does Conscious Mean

Conscious, on the other hand, is an adjective that indicates

that a person is awake and alert and able to understand

what is happening around them,

such as a patient who becomes fully conscious after being administered anesthesia.

It can also imply that a person is aware of a particular fact or feeling,

such as an investor who is conscious of risk

or athletes who are conscious of being role models for young people.

Another common meaning of conscious

describes a person who cares about something specified,

such as the cost-conscious shopper and the environmentally conscious activist.

Additionally, conscious can modify an act or decision

that is done deliberately

(and one that might very well result in conscious guilt or a guilty

conscience).

Hopefully, you are now fully (or at least semi-) conscious

of the differences in using conscience and conscious

—the most essential one being that conscience is a noun

and conscious is an adjective, which describes nouns.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a difficult situation,

you should be conscious about what your conscience is telling you.

Your conscience will help you make moral, just, and fair decisions.

As for remembering the spelling of the noun:

conscience contains the word science (also a noun),

and as science tells us how the forces of nature and the universe behave—or should—the conscience tells us how we should behave—or should.

Collins COBUILD English Usage Dictionary

Conscious – consciousness – conscience – conscientious

1. 'conscious'

Conscious is an adjective.

If you are conscious of something, you are aware of it.

She became conscious of Rudolph looking at her.

I was conscious that he had changed his tactics.

If you are conscious, you are awake, rather than asleep or unconscious.

The patient was fully conscious during the operation.

2. 'consciousness'

Consciousness is a noun. You can refer to your mind and thoughts as your consciousness.

Doubts were starting to enter into my consciousness.

If you lose consciousness, you become unconscious.

If you regain consciousness or recover consciousness,

you become conscious again after being unconscious.

These are fairly formal expressions.

He fell down and lost consciousness.

He began to regain consciousness just as Kate was leaving.

She died in hospital without recovering consciousness.

In more informal English you can say that you pass out

instead of 'lose consciousness',

and come round instead of 'regain/recover consciousness'.

He felt sick and dizzy, then passed out.

When I came round, I was on the kitchen floor.

3. 'conscience'

Conscience is a noun.

Your conscience is the part of your mind that

tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong.

My conscience told me to vote against the others.

Their consciences were troubled by stories of famine and war.

4. 'conscientious'

Conscientious is an adjective.

Someone who is conscientious is very careful to do their work properly.

We are generally very conscientious about our work.

She seemed a conscientious, serious young woman.