Other forms: consciousnesses
Consciousness is being awake and aware of what is around you. Lose consciousness, regain consciousness, altered consciousness.
In medicine it is measured rather than argued about — the Glasgow scale scores eyes, speech and movement. In philosophy it is the hardest question there is: why any of this feels like anything at all has no agreed answer. Note conscious plus -ness.
1nounconsciousnessBeing awake and aware of what is around you.
“The boxer was knocked down and lost consciousness for a few seconds.”
consciousness is a state of mind.
Latin
cōnscius — conscious, conscious of guilt
English
conscious
English, today
consciousness
Built from
From conscious + -ness. 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