different between conscious vs involuntarily

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nscius, itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + sc?re (“to know”) + -us.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: /k?n?sh?s/ IPA^(key): /?k?n.??s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.??s/, /?k?nt??s/

Adjective

conscious (comparative more conscious, superlative most conscious)

2. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

3. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
   • 1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:

     The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

4. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
   • Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.

5. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
   • 1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43:

     He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
6. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

   conscious guilt

7. Self-conscious.
   • 1616—1650, Richard Crashaw:

     The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

Antonyms

• asleep
• unaware
• unconscious

Derived terms

Related terms

• conscience

Translations

Noun

conscious (plural consciouses)

1. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

English

Etymology

involuntary +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?v?l?n?t???li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?v?l?nt??li/
• Hyphenation: in?vol?un?ta?ri?ly

Adverb

involuntarily (comparative more involuntarily, superlative most involuntarily)

1. In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.

   Her leg twitched involuntarily.

   He involuntarily overheard the conversation.

Translations

References

• involuntarily in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• involuntarily in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.