2021-05-16 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – aware & conscious

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2021-05-16

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – aware & conscious

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง aware = ‘uh-WAIR’

ออกเสียง conscious = ‘KON-shuhs’

Dictionary.com

SYNONYM STUDY FOR CONSCIOUS

Conscious, aware, cognizant

refer to an individual sense of recognition

ofsomething within or without oneself.

Conscious implies to be awake or awakened

toan 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

asthey are the object of conscious recognition:

He was aware of the odor of tobacco.

Cognizant lays the emphasis on an outer recognition

more onthe level of reason and knowledge

than on the sensorylevel alone:

He was cognizant of their drawbacks.

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree

conscious

= aware; capable of thought or will:

a conscious decision;

= cognizant:

She was conscious of the stranger standing close to her.

Not to be confused with:

conscience = recognition of difference between right and wrong:

His conscience bothered him when he cheated on the test.

Collins COBUILD English Usage

concious – 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.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choosethe Right Synonym for aware & conscious

AWARE, COGNIZANT, CONSCIOUS, SENSIBLE, ALIVE, AWAKE

meanhaving knowledge of something.

AWARE implies vigilance in observing or alertness

in drawing inferences from what one experiences.

aware of changes in climate

COGNIZANT implies having special or certain knowledge as from firsthand sources.

not fully cognizant of the facts

CONSCIOUS implies that one is focusing one's attention

onsomething or is even preoccupied by it.

conscious that my heart was pounding

SENSIBLE implies direct or intuitive perceiving especially of intangiblesor of emotional states or qualities.

sensible of a teacher's influence

ALIVE addsto SENSIBLE the implication of acute sensitivity to something.

alive to the thrill of danger

AWAKE implies that one has become alive to something and is onthe alert.

a country always awake to the threat of invasion

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage Notes

'Conscience'vs. 'Conscious': Let Us Be Your Guide

Avoidingconfusion involves grammar and 'science'

What to Know

Though they soundsimilar,

conscience is a noun referring to

the awarenessthat one's actions are right or wrong,

as in: one's "guilty conscience,"

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

Ifyou were asleep you would be "unconscious."

To keep them straight,

rememberto stay conscious of what your conscience is telling you to do.

As conscientious lexicographers,

we are consciousof the occasional mix-up

ofthe words conscience and conscious.

Here are some examplesthat caught our attention:

The stones are an iconic part of Roman history.

 … Some tourists have been known to wrongly remove them

from the street and take them home as a souvenir.

Two years ago, a traveler with a very guilty conscious

mailed backa stone they had stolen on vacation a year earlier,

writing, "Please find enclosed a cobble from one of your cobbled roads."
— Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2019

Covergirl is paving the way for larger and more well-known

makeup brands to switch over to being cruelty-free….

Covergirl is not only affordable and a popular drugstore brand

but now it comes with a clear conscious

when picking their products off of the shelves.
— The Sonoma State Star, 13 Nov. 2018

Communication is a fascinating and important topic.

Be surethat you are clearly communicating bybeing conscience of your body language.
— Forbes, 26 Feb. 2013

As the price of electricity continues to rise,

homeowners are looking for ways to cut energy costs

without sacrificing comfort or convenience.

And many cost-conscience homeowners are considering solar panels,

which convert the sun's energy into clean electricity.
— Popular Mechanics, 27 Jul. 2019

If you stopped to double-check

if conscience or conscious wasactually

being used incorrectlyin any of the above examples,

this article will help you to readily differentiate the words

and use them with confidence in the future

—since, honestly, there were no trick examples.

And ifwrongly using conscience in place of conscious, or vice versa,

has never been on your conscience,

we encourage you to read on anyways.

We discuss word history and grammar, and an orthopteran insect.

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 firstof a moral awareness and

the second of a physicalor mental wakefulness

in which a person is aware of their surroundings.

English speakers are first made aware of conscience

inthe 13th century, and conscious in the 16th.

Conscience and conscious have similar pronunciations,

which, for some, causes confusion.

(Their first syllablesare pronounced the same,

and they bothcontain a middle \sh\ sound.)

For those who hesitate on which to use,

learningthe words' suffixes and their meanings

and also, the words' parts of speech

might be the best approach in differentiatingthem.

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 ConscienceMean?

The noun conscience refers to

a state of awareness ora sense that one's actions or intentions

are either morally rightor wrong,

alongwith a feeling of obligation to do the right thing.

Cartoonsoften personify the conscience

as a proverbial angel/devil pair

who talk into the ear of an indecisive character,

encouraginghim or her to follow

either a path of moral virtue or of moral corruption.

Inthe Walt Disney movie Pinocchio, metaphorically,

the conscience isthe dapper talking cricket, named Jiminy Cricket,

whose maxim"always let your conscience be your guide"

he teachesthe title character, a marionette

who is magically brought to life and becomes a real human boy

after proving himselfbrave, truthful, and selfless

(after listening to his conscience).

Some examplesof the noun conscience are:

You should decide what to do according to your own conscience.

Her conscience was bothering her, so she finally told the truth.

I cannot doanything that is/goes against my conscience.

He could not in good conscience allow this situation to continue.

I have to tell you the truth because I don't want this on my conscience any longer.

What Does Conscious Mean

Conscious, on the other hand, is an adjective

thatindicates that a person is awake and alert

and able to understandwhat 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 factor feeling,

such as an investor who is conscious of risk or

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

Another common meaningof conscious describes a person who cares about something specified,

such as: the cost-conscious shopperand 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 guiltor a guilty conscience).

Hopefully, you are now fully (or at least semi-) conscious of the differences in using conscience and conscious

—the mostessential one being that conscience is a noun

and conscious isan adjective, which describes nouns.

Keep in mindthat whenever you are in a difficult situation,

you should beconscious about what your conscience is telling you.

Your conscience willhelp you make moral, just, and fair decisions.

As for remembering the spelling of the noun:

conscience containsthe word science (also a noun),

and as science

tells ushow the forces of nature and the universe behave—orshould

—the conscience tells us how we should behave—or should.

Dictionary of Problem Words in English

aware& conscious

Aware implies knowing something

either byperception or through information:

“The lecturer was aware that he had lost his audience.”

Conscious has much the same meaning

but is more often applied to a physical situation:

“The injured player was conscious but could not stand.”

In informal use, the words are employed interchangeably.