Conscience vs. Conscious — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Conscience and Conscious
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Definitions
Conscience
Conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses.
Conscious
Aware of and responding to one's surroundings
Although I was in pain, I was conscious
Conscience
A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour
He had a guilty conscience about his desires
Ben was suffering a pang of conscience
Conscious
Having knowledge of something
We are conscious of the extent of the problem
Conscience
An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally
Let your conscience be your guide.
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Conscious
(of an action or feeling) deliberate and intentional
A conscious effort to walk properly
Conscience
A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement
A document that serves as the nation's conscience.
Conscious
Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts.
Conscience
Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct
A person of unflagging conscience.
Conscious
Mentally perceptive or alert; awake
The patient remained fully conscious after the local anesthetic was administered.
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Conscience
The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.
Conscious
Capable of thought, will, or perception
The development of conscious life on the planet.
Conscience
(Obsolete) Consciousness or awareness of something.
Conscious
Subjectively known or felt
Conscious remorse.
Conscience
The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.
Your conscience is your highest authority.
Conscious
Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate
A conscious insult.
Made a conscious effort to speak more clearly.
Conscience
A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
Conscious
Inwardly attentive or sensitive to something
As he spoke, he became increasingly conscious of his high-pitched voice.
Conscience
(obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
Conscious
Showing awareness of or preoccupation with something. Often used in combination
A cost-conscious approach to health care.
A value-conscious shopper.
Conscience
Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
The sweetest cordial we receive, at last,Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
Conscious
In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant; consciousness.
Conscience
The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,And every tongue brings in a several tale,And every tale condemns me for a villain.
As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self-knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation.
Conscious
Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
Conscience
The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
Conscience supposes the existence of some such [i.e., moral] faculty, and properly signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions.
Conscious
Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
Conscience
Tenderness of feeling; pity.
Conscious
Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
I was conscious of a noise behind me.
A very class-conscious analysis
Conscience
Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
Conscious
Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
Conscience
Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct;
A person of unflagging conscience
Conscious
Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
Conscious guilt
Conscience
A feeling of shame when you do something immoral;
He has no conscience about his cruelty
Conscious
(rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
Passage=They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject ; but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.
Conscious
The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
Conscious
Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought.
Conscious
Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt.
The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing.
Conscious
Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.
With conscious terrors vex me round.
Conscious
Intentionally conceived;
A conscious effort to speak more slowly
A conscious policy
Conscious
Knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts;
Remained conscious during the operation
Conscious of his faults
Became conscious that he was being followed
Conscious
(followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something;
Few voters seem conscious of the issue's importance
Conscious of having succeeded
The careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load
