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consciously

adverbB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,964 of 15,258neutral

Consciously means knowing full well what you are doing. Consciously chose, not consciously, consciously or not.

The phrase consciously or not is the useful one, since it concedes that the effect happened either way. It is the opposite of unconsciously rather than of accidentally, which is a finer distinction than it looks.

Definitions of consciously

  1. 1adverbconsciouslyKnowing full well what you are doing.B2+

    “She consciously decided to spend less time on her phone and more with her children.”

consciously is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    cōnscius — conscious, conscious of guilt

  2. English

    conscious

  3. English, today

    consciously

Built from

  • com- · Latin — together
  • scio · Latin — to know

From conscious + -ly. conscious First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".[https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious] From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scio (“to know”) + -us.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

consciously in the wild

  • The term "Torah Judaism" is consciously intended to label non-Orthodox Jewish religious movements as being divorced from the Torah.

    Torah Judaism

  • Unus is a mutant, and is named for his ability to consciously project an invisible force field which protects him from harm.

    Unus the Untouchable

  • As such, it is the ability to consciously perceive, understand, and respond both generally to one's surroundings and specifically to individual stimuli.

    Awareness

  • Banner blindness is a phenomenon in web usability where visitors to a website consciously or subconsciously ignore banner-like information.

    Banner blindness

  • Banner ads still influence the behavior of viewers, even when they may not be consciously aware of an ad.

    Banner blindness

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the scio family

unconsciousconsciousnessconscious

consciously — used about once every 3,040 pages · #7,964 · point at the bar for the others

  • unconsciousness