{
    "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
}